K. Jews, Europe, the 21st century

23/12/2024

"“Anti-Judaism” is not simply an attitude toward the actions of real Jews and their religion, but a way of critically engaging the world."
https://k-larevue.com/en/anti-judaism/

Read David Nirenberg's article on 'Anti-Judaism, critical thinking and the possibility of history'.

22/12/2024

"We are only ever the second to last Jew"
Ruben Honigmann invites us to meditate on the never-ending endings of the Jewish experience.
👉https://k-larevue.com/en/second-to-last-jew/

19/12/2024

“Israelis must be pro-Palestinian and Palestinians pro-Israeli”.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit spoke to K. about his Judaism, his relationship with Zionism, how he perceives the pro-Palestinian movements and BDS, as well as Europe and populism...
👉https://k-larevue.com/en/cohn-bendit/

09/12/2024

"A history of the charge of genocide against Israel. Part II"
https://k-larevue.com/en/history-genocide-ii/

Daniel Szeftel continues his investigation. In this second part, he describes the post-war efforts of Arab nationalism to reformulate its discourse for Western audiences.

08/12/2024

Can Jewish religiosity blend with Zionism without ending up in messianism? Noémie Issan-Benchimol introduces us to another way of thinking about Jewish existence in the land of Israel: the Safed model, for which there is no outside of exile.
👉https://k-larevue.com/en/safed/

05/12/2024

How do Israeli academics react to the call for a boycott of their universities? How has the war affected their academic freedom? To shed light on these questions, K. went to interview them directly.
https://k-larevue.com/en/call-to-boycott/

25/11/2024

"Are there any Jews left in Algeria?"
https://k-larevue.com/en/are-there-any-jews-left-in-algeria/

Sixty years after Algeria’s independence and the departure of the 150,000 Jews who lived there, the question of a Jewish presence in Algeria continues to stir emotions. Joseph Benamour investigates.

24/11/2024

"What do goyim actually talk about?"
https://k-larevue.com/en/what-do-goyim-actually-talk-about/

On a plane, two Jews are having a conversation. In this short story Barbara Honigmann humorously questions what Jews have in common, and what radically sets them apart.

22/11/2024

"Between two worlds, or Jewish fantasy in cinema"
https://k-larevue.com/en/between-two-worlds/

Dybbuk, golems, zombies, spectres, werewolves and other Mazzikim, Jewish demonology has penetrated the cinema, but what does it have to tell us?
By David Haziza

21/11/2024

"A history of the charge of genocide against Israel. Part I"
https://k-larevue.com/en/history-genocide/

Daniel Szeftel examines the revival of Arab nationalism from the 20s to the 40s, highlighting the influence of fascism and European antisemitism on its structuring.

10/11/2024

"The Politically Wandering Jew"
https://k-larevue.com/en/the-politically-wandering-jew/

What explains the political wandering of some Jews, who seem to be sliding irresistibly to the right? Katie Ebner-Landy proposes here three paradoxes, which she proposes will have to be fought against to reassure left-wing Jews.

07/11/2024

How did American Jews and their organizations position themselves during the presidential campaign, and what role did the Israel-Palestine conflict play in it? In this interview, conducted on the eve of Presidential Election Day, journalist and essayist Dara Horn sheds light on the political cleavages within the American Jewish world, and how they are at times instrumentalized.

https://k-larevue.com/en/us-elections-dara-horn/

01/11/2024

"Germany’s Battle Against Antisemitism. Part 2"
👉https://k-larevue.com/en/germanys-antisemitism-part-2/

Monty Ott dives into Germany’s fraught battle against antisemitism, revealing not only the strides taken but also the ethical and societal questions that linger unanswered.

In a nation still reckoning with the shadows of its past, Germany's response to antisemitism today is layered with complexity and urgency. Recent measures, from appointing antisemitism commissioners to intensifying security for Jewish communities, aim to confront a troubling rise in antisemitic inci...

31/10/2024

"Trump and the war of the Jews"
https://k-larevue.com/en/trump-and-the-war-of-the-jews/

Could the Jewish world, which is currently undergoing a process of division, go as far as an internecine war? For Bruno Karsenti, the possible election of Donald Trump to the American presidency could complete the rupture. It would make it impossible to ignore the gulf that now separates the “Jews committed to force” from the “Jews committed to law and rights”.

14/10/2024

"The Class Photo"
https://k-larevue.com/en/the-class-photo/

Ruben Honigmann continues the intimate exploration of his identity questions. A photo showing him in 1995 among his classmates makes him wonder. Where are the people in the picture? Who was he almost thirty years ago and who is he today?

13/10/2024

"Franco-Judaism: In praise of hexagonal complexity"
By Julien Darmon
https://k-larevue.com/en/franco-judaism-in-praise-of-hexagonal-complexity/

Continuing our series on the state of Franco-Judaism, it is now Julien Darmon’s turn to offer a friendly retort.
Rather than looking to the German model of the 19th century, or envying the spread of Anglo-Saxon Jewish thinkers, wouldn’t it be better to appreciate and encourage the intellectual creativity of the French Jewish world, in all its specificity?

10/10/2024

"One year on: reflections from October" by David Seymour
https://k-larevue.com/en/one-year-on-reflections-from-october/

The October 7 massacre sent shockwaves through the Jewish world, extending far beyond Israel. One year on, we present David Seymour’s concomitant reflections on the consequences of the massacre for Jews in the Diaspora. What if what was revealed was in fact the permanence, in new clothes, of the “Jewish Question”?

06/10/2024

"Poland’s Jewish (and Communist) Problem"
https://k-larevue.com/en/polands-jewish-and-communist-problem/

Arlene Stein spoke to Anna Zawadzka, Polish sociologist, who examines the changing forms of antisemitism in Polish culture and how Poland's history of antisemitism is a key element of the contemporary political culture.