Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
1,1 (2002) 3-21
Keywords:
Sartre, Jean-Paul,
;
Goldman, Pierre,
;
Finkielkraut, Alain
;
Lévy, Benny,
;
Trigano, Shmuel
;
Philosophy
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Jews Identity
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Traces the influence of Sartre's "Reflexions sur la question juive" on four French Jewish thinkers of the 1968 generation: Pierre Goldman, Alain Finkielkraut, Shmuel Trigano, and Benny Levy. The first two echo Sartre in believing either that the Jew is defined by the Other (the antisemite) or is not real (the "imaginary Jew" of Finkielkraut). Levy, Sartre's private secretary toward the end of his life, rejected France; he adopted Jewish Orthodoxy and now lives in Israel (he died in 2003 - ed.). Trigano rejects Sartre's framework, noting that while modern France is not antisemitic, the Franco-Jewish social contract allows for modern antisemitism, since Jewishness remains something negative. Trigano advocates a revived Judaism based on community in a France that would be an open society, where Jews and others could define themselves.
DOI:
10.1080/14725880110120415
URL:
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