Comment Dire Le Judaisme Au Xxe Siecle? La Tentative D'Albert Cohen Paperback

Ludivine Leresche

How to define Judaism in the 20th century? What did it mean to be a Jew in Western Europe in the eyes of Jewish intellectuals? How to live when you feel both Jewish and French? These are the questions to which the writer and diplomat of Jewish origin, Albert Cohen, will attempt to answer through a varied critical and literary work. Joining Chaim Weizmann in the twenties in a movement of redefinition of Judaism, then in the Romanesque experiment, he will perfectly illustrate a community subject to the changes of emancipation and modernity, a community in transition that questions the transmission of tradition and the need for a collective memory. Cohen, confronted with a double aporia, that of living as a Jew and a Frenchman, and to define oneself as an individual in a community will try to achieve a personal and universal image of Judaism. The analysis of his work, compared to historical reality and religious tradition, will release and nuance his apprehension of Jewishness and question the name given many times to the writer of "cantor of Judaism."

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