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Jürgen Habermas: The Prosaic Bedrock - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Jürgen Habermas: The Prosaic Bedrock - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Jürgen Habermas died on March 14, 2026. The entire work of this giant of philosophy rested on a single conviction: after the Holocaust, philosophy had forfeited the right to think of itself as eminent.
Feature: Jürgen Habermas - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Feature: Jürgen Habermas - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Jürgen Habermas passed away on March 14, 2026, at the age of 96. A giant of philosophy and arguably the greatest thinker of post-Shoah Europe, he never wavered in his belief in the centrality of the…
The Shiite Clergy, Zionism, and the Reception of Nazism in Iran - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
The Shiite Clergy, Zionism, and the Reception of Nazism in Iran - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
In “Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment in Iran”, Stéphanie Roza and Amirpasha Tavakkoli offer an interpretation of Iranian political history that rejects both culturalist exceptionalism and…
#261 / Editorial - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
#261 / Editorial - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Jürgen Habermas passed away on March 14, 2026, at the age of 96. With the passing of this giant of philosophy, a thinker on the public sphere and communicative reason, Europe has also lost one of its…
Red the editorial 260 : Israel, the Jews, and the war in Iran
Red the editorial 260 : Israel, the Jews, and the war in Iran
From Israel’s point of view, war with Iran is part of a logic of justification that has been available from the outset, and which the events following October 7 have only made more tangible.
Zeruya Shalev on Israel and the war in Iran - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Zeruya Shalev on Israel and the war in Iran - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Written in the early days of Iran’s retaliation, this text by Israeli novelist Zeruya Shalev—author of Love Life, Husband and Wife, The Remains of Love, Pain, and Thera—expresses the deep ambivalence…
The real reason for the war between the United States and Iran may have nothing to do with Israel - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
The real reason for the war between the United States and Iran may have nothing to do with Israel - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Why has the United States now gone to war against Iran alongside Israel? One would expect the US administration to provide a clear answer to this question. Rob Eshman points out that the lack of…
Before ‘Shoah’, the voices: Lanzmann’s forgotten tapes - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Before ‘Shoah’, the voices: Lanzmann’s forgotten tapes - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
At the Jewish Museum in Berlin, an exhibition presents more than 220 hours of previously unheard audio recordings made by Claude Lanzmann and his assistants between 1973 and 1978…
Feature: Iranian voices - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Feature: Iranian voices - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
As the war with Iran rages on, it is important not to reduce it to its regime or to geopolitical logic alone. The two texts brought together here give voice to Iranian women already featured in K.
Judaism, the word and the thing - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Judaism, the word and the thing - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Danny Trom reviews David Lemler’s book ‘L’invention du judaïsme’ (ET: The Invention of Judaism), published by Albin Michel. Recounting Lemler’s method of investigation—questioning the diversity of…
Grey-eyed-Kafka - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Grey-eyed-Kafka - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Kafka’s art is accessible again. Hundreds of his drawings are now available, free, from the National Library of Israel, where the Kafka Archive–a collection of his work saved by his friend and…
#258 / Editorial - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
#258 / Editorial - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
It is rare for political repression to result in massacres on a scale comparable to those that took place in Iran in January. And yet, it is to be feared that these massacres will not find their place…
“The whole of Iran is a prison” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
“The whole of Iran is a prison” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
On the occasion of the premiere of her latest film Roya at the Berlinale, Mariam Schaghaghi interviewed Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about the long…
Purim 1962, or when we started dressing up as Jews - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Purim 1962, or when we started dressing up as Jews - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
What do we see in the mirror of a mask when young German Jews dress up as Hasidim? Using photographs from Purim in 1962, Cilly Kugelmann explores the internal tensions within German Jewish identity…
Feature: Jews of Izmir - a revolving story - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Feature: Jews of Izmir - a revolving story - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Izmir (Smyrna) was one of the great cosmopolitan ports of the Ottoman Empire. Having grown stronger after 1492, the Jewish community of Izmir endured migrations, reforms, and divisions throughout the…
Pasolini’s Jews - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Pasolini’s Jews - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
How can we understand Pasolini’s position during the Six-Day War, which was both radically opposed to the anti-Zionism of the Italian communist left and deeply ambivalent in its relationship to…
On the evolution of the IDF: Interview with Yagil Levy - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
On the evolution of the IDF: Interview with Yagil Levy - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Much has been said and written about the Netanyahu government’s conduct during the war in Gaza and its attack on Israeli democracy. But very little analysis has been offered on the role of the IDF…
Atefe Asadi : “We, the people of Iran, have always been alone” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Atefe Asadi : “We, the people of Iran, have always been alone” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
From the Iran-Iraq War to the bloody suppression of uprisings, to the current war, which has buried the Mullahs’ nuclear hopes, the memory of violence runs through an entire generation of Iranians.
October 1973 - Vilém Flusser’s “The Jewish War” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
October 1973 - Vilém Flusser’s “The Jewish War” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Vilém Flusser wrote “The Jewish War” in October 1973, shortly after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, as he was preparing to visit Israel for the first time. A philosopher of communication and…
Shibboleth - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Shibboleth - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
In close dialogue with Vilém Flusser’s “The Jewish War”, this text offers much more than a scholarly commentary: it is a conceptual and historical examination of a singular intellectual gesture.
Lamed Vovniks - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Lamed Vovniks - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Staying Zionist - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Staying Zionist - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
To renew a language - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
To renew a language - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
What Mode of Belonging Does Yiddish Enable? - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
What Mode of Belonging Does Yiddish Enable? - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Atefe Asadi : “We, the people of Iran, have always been alone”
Atefe Asadi : “We, the people of Iran, have always been alone”
“I didn’t want to be a female rabbi, I wanted to be a rabbi.” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
“I didn’t want to be a female rabbi, I wanted to be a rabbi.” - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Saravá Shalom: Teshuvah in the Land of Enchantment - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Saravá Shalom: Teshuvah in the Land of Enchantment - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Unabashed anti-Zionism and a clear conscience - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Unabashed anti-Zionism and a clear conscience - K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
Omer Bartov and the limits of historical comparison - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Omer Bartov and the limits of historical comparison - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Why I never went on a “trip to Auschwitz” - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Why I never went on a “trip to Auschwitz” - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
The Jewish question in the 21st century, or the state of European political consciousness - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
The Jewish question in the 21st century, or the state of European political consciousness - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Itzhak Rabin and the Gaza War: Some Reflections - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Itzhak Rabin and the Gaza War: Some Reflections - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City marks a turning point for American Jews - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City marks a turning point for American Jews - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Two years later. October 7 as a European event - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Two years later. October 7 as a European event - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Palestine: Recognition, and then what? - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Palestine: Recognition, and then what? - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
The Jews of Europe, between decline and restructuring. An interview with Jonathan Boyd - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
The Jews of Europe, between decline and restructuring. An interview with Jonathan Boyd - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Netanyahu-Macron: chronicle of a pen-pal summer - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Netanyahu-Macron: chronicle of a pen-pal summer - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
When Messianics Dream “For Real”. - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
When Messianics Dream “For Real”. - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
When calls for the murder of Jews no longer shock: the Belgian case (Part II)
When calls for the murder of Jews no longer shock: the Belgian case (Part II)
The Jews of East Germany at a time of rising right-wing extremism - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
The Jews of East Germany at a time of rising right-wing extremism - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Interview with Yehudah Mirsky: History and current events of religious Zionism
Interview with Yehudah Mirsky: History and current events of religious Zionism
A writer calls for the murder of Jews? Belgium acquits him. (Part I)
A writer calls for the murder of Jews? Belgium acquits him. (Part I)
Benny Morris: “The Iranian nuclear program is Netanyahu's obsession. And that of many Israelis, myself included.”
Benny Morris: “The Iranian nuclear program is Netanyahu's obsession. And that of many Israelis, myself included.”
End of war - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
End of war - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century
Kichinev, 1903: from pogrom to myth
Kichinev, 1903: from pogrom to myth
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