The team

Balász Berkovits was born in Budapest, and lives in Tel Aviv. He is a sociologist and journalist, pursuing research at the Bucerius and Herzl Institutes at the University of Haifa, and also at the Roth Institute of Tel Aviv University. He is working on the re-emergence of the “Jewish problem” in contemporary works of philosophical, social and political criticism. As a journalist, he writes about the political and social situation in contemporary Hungary. Recently, he has contributed to the volume Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Dynamics of Delegitimization, Indiana University Press, 2019.

Stéphane Bou is a journalist and teacher at ENS-Paris/Saclay. Former producer on France Culture and France Inter, he worked for Charlie Hebdo, was opinion editor of Marianne, hosted the program “Living Memories” of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de Shoah on RCJ. He is the author of Reflections on Nazism, with Saul Friedlender (Seuil) and Memoirs of Yiddish. with Rachel Ertel (Albin Michel).

Julia Christ is a German philosopher. Former assistant to Axel Honneth at the University of Frankfurt, her work focuses on critical theory and the work of Adorno (Spiel und Kritik. Adornos Sozialphilosophie heute, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2016) and on the link between modern emancipation movements and monotheistic religions.

Jacques Ehrenfreund is Professor and Chair of Jewish history and Judaism, Dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences at the University of Lausanne. He was a senior lecturer in the History department of Bar Ilan University in Israel. Among his publications,  Mémoire juive et nationalité allemande, PUF, and Marranismes. De la religiosité cachée à la société ouverte, Demopolis.

Macha Fogel is a journalist. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, she lived in Moscow, where she worked for Radio France, and in New York, where she was the Coordinator of the international program “Global Day of Jewish Learning” and joined a Yiddish theatre company. She was editorial director for the website Akadem (The Jewish Digital Campus) and host of a program devoted to Jewish spirituality on RCJ. She speaks English, Russian and Yiddish.

Ruben Honigmann was born in East Berlin. He studied Biblical and Talmudic studies at yeshiva in Strasbourg and Jerusalem as well as studies of history in Strasbourg and Paris. He has been working since 2007 for Akadem (The Jewish Digital Campus) where he is editorial director.

Noémie Issan-Benchimol lives between Jerusalem and Paris. After studying philosophy (ENS/ULM), she wrote a thesis in religious sciences on the legal oath in Talmudic law. She writes regularly for Tenoua and the Tel Aviv Review of Books.

Bruno Karsenti is a philosopher and vice-president of EHESS. A specialist in the philosophy of social sciences, he is notably the author of Moise et l’idée de peuple: la vérité historique selon Freud (Cerf, 2012) and La question juive des modernes, philosophie de l’émancipation (PUF, 2017) and since 2018 has organized the seminary Jews and Europe at EHESS.

Jean-Marc Liling, a “hard-core” hierosolymitain, is a French-Israeli lawyer. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, Bar Ilan and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he specializes in issues of asylum and the status of non-Jews in Israel. He is very involved in the field of Israeli NGOs in the fields of social and humanitarian, and he lives and promotes an open and inclusive Judaism.

David Haziza is a doctoral student at Columbia University, where he works at the crossroads of French literature, the history of Jewish ideas and studies. He is the author of Talisman sur ton coeur, a French translation of the Song of Songs (followed by an essay and published at Le Cerf) as well as a forthcoming book on the relationship of modernity to flesh and violence.

Avishag Zafrani is a Doctor of Philosophy and an associate researcher in the Laboratory of Philosophy, Epistemology and Politics at the University of Paris 10. She has published Ernst Bloch and Hans Jonas (Hermann, 2014). Recipient of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah fellowship, she is pursuing research on the concept of metaphysical anti-Semitism.

Barbara Necek, born in Austria to Polish parents, is a journalist and director of historical documentaries. She is the director of Auschwitz Trial, the End of Silence (France 5, 2017) which won an award at the FIGRA 2019 festival. His latest film, In Search of the Polish Schindler (2019), is an investigation into a fake Polish savior. Currently, she is preparing a documentary on Mauthausen (ARTE, 2021) as well as a book on the guardians of concentration camps (to be published in 2021 by Grasset).

Rudy Reichstadt, CEO and director of Conspiracy Watch is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Aix-en-Provence. He is a member of the Observatory of Political Radicals of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation. He co-wrote, with Georges Benayoun, the documentary Complotism: The Alibis of Terror (France, 2017). He published in September 2019 L’opium des imbéciles. Essai sur la question complotiste (Grasset). He is a member of the l’Observatoire de la haine en ligne, part of the french Conseil superieur de l’audiovisuel.

Gilles Rozier is a writer, translator of Yiddish and Hebrew. He ran the House of Yiddish Culture-Medem Library for twenty years. Since 2016, he has been managing the editions of the Antelope, which he founded with Anne-Sophie Dreyfus.

Danny Trom was born in Antwerp. Sociologist, research fellow at the CNRS and associate researcher at the Centre for Jewish Studies (EHESS), he is the author of La promesse et l’obstacle, la gauche radicale et le problème juif (2007), de Persévérance du fait juif, une théorie politique de la survie (2018) et de La France sans les Juifs, émancipation, extermination, expulsion (2018). He has led the EHESS “Jews and Europe” seminar since 2018.