Last week, K. published Julia Christ’s essay on the film. It highlights this quote from Adorno, written to Benjamin in 1940: “Whether or not a human being can have experiences depends, in the final analysis, on the way in which he forgets.” The essay distinguished between two ways of forgetting. The first rejects reality in…
Eighty years after the Nuremberg trials, Annette Wieviorka revisits the trial transcripts and focuses on one word: “genocide.” This term, which appears twenty-one times over ten months of hearings, remains rare and vague, applied to situations as diverse as those of the Czechs, Poles, and Norwegians—and almost never to refer to the Jews.
Danny Trom visited Michael Kovner’s studio in Jerusalem. The painter was born the year the State was founded, and he is the son of Abba Kovner, who led the Vilna Ghetto Uprising, commanded Jewish partisans, and later fought in Palestine. Between the two men, there is no generational conflict, but rather a silent divide. It…
In 'Critical Theories of Antisemitism', the historian Jonathan Judaken seeks to reshape the study of antisemitism by grounding it in critical theories of race, postcolonialism, and decolonialism. For Daniel J. Solomon, this endeavor is less a matter of scholarly innovation than a political project: adapting the concept of antisemitism to the needs of the contemporary…
Jordan Bardella accused of antisemitic writings by Mediapart
Some people claim that the French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) is no longer antisemitic, and that the vast majority of Jews would vote for Bardella. To discuss these two dubious assertions, we spoke to film director and essayist Jonathan Hayoun– notably the author, with Judith Cohen-Solal, of La main du diable : Comment l'extrême droite a voulu séduire les Juifs de France (Grasset,2019) [TN:The Devil's Hand: How the far right tried to seduce the Jews of France] –, and Johan Weisz, journalist and editor-in-chief and committed founder of the online media StreetPress. Interviewed by Elie Petit, they question the idea that, beyond the communication strategy, there would be a real normalization of the RN, while questioning the feeling of danger in which the Jews of France live, and its political consequences.
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Before it is a matter of ideology or war, Israel is first and foremost, for the child, a holiday destination: Eilat, with its coral reefs, its desert, its Club in resort, and its bunker repainted with cartoon-style murals. Yet beneath this apparent innocence, other realities are surfacing: the incomprehensible Hebrew, the turmoil following Rabin’s assassination, and the first questions about belonging—amidst provocation, family legacies, and a Jewish identity that resisted any stable definition..
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