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  One year ago, on March 22, 2021, the first issue of K. was published. On the morning of that first issue, we were driven by one main ambition: to…

  To the surprise of all, and certainly the Jews themselves, the Jewish signifier has been present since the first day of the war against Ukraine. Implicitly invoked, at least…

  Russia’s assault on Ukraine has reintroduced war to the heart of Europe. No one can predict how long the conflict will last or what its full extent will be….

  One should have solid reasons to unleash armed conflict on the European continent in this post-World War II era. Putin’s Russia rattles off justifications, one at a time, or…

  The three texts that appear in K. this week all focus on Germany, the weight of its Nazi past, and the fundamental ambivalence that it provokes. This ambivalence alternate…

  After the Holocaust, after the creation of the State of Israel, the map of Jewish life was deeply changed. Its most significant centres have shifted. Just as it always…

  In the mid-1990s, the number of Jews in Algeria did not exceed fifty, whereas 150,000 lived there before independence. And yet… a rumor persists. “Jews in Algeria? There are…

  Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus wander through Dublin on a long day like everyone else. Bloom is the modern-day Odysseus who finally returns home in the middle of the…

  We are not talking this week in K. about Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, recently released in France, but rather his penultimate one, Submission (published in 2015). Danny Trom has…