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Last week’s issue of K. dealt with compensation (The German-Israeli “reparations” agreement (1952): the mirage of reconciliation, by Constantin Goschler) as well as vengeance, through the portrait of Samuel Schwarzbard…

It was in September 1952 – just seventy years ago – that the Luxembourg Agreement on German reparations to Israel was signed by Federal Chancellor Adenauer and Israeli Foreign Minister…

What is antisemitism? This is a question that never stops coming up. Every generation asks it again. Whether a description or a position is considered as such is always a…

A few days after the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras in 1990, the great philosopher Jean-François Lyotard reacted in an article published in Libération. “Europe, the Jews and…

Lines of Demarcation The high school version of French history teaches us that the country was split in two under the German occupation of World War II: the Occupied Zone…

European Jewish life could only resume in the aftermath of the Holocaust on the predicate that the state would ensure the safety of the decimated communities. The first two decades…

K. is fortunate to have an editor like Julia Christ in its ranks; she gives no quarter to platitudes. Christ, born in Germany and now a researcher at the École…

  There is nothing like an inferno to rouse men from a summertime torpor. France has been treated to a series of forest fires in the past month, sometimes touching…

  This week, we are rerunning Balázs Berkovits’ two-part series on the Jews and whiteness, titled “What Color Are the Jews?” A detailed analysis of the “theory” that intends to…