Foreword • Introduction • I. THE ISRAELITE OF THE REPUBLIC • Joseph Salvador, The People • James Darmesteter, Preface, The Prophets of Israel • Zadoc Kahn, Speech on the acceptance of his position as chief rabbi of France • Bernard Lazare, Judaism’s Conception of the Social and the Jewish People; Jewish Capitalism and Democracy • André Spire, Preface (1959) to Jewish Poems; Prologue (1919) to Jewish Poems; Jewish Dreams • Sylvain Lévi, Alliance israélite universelle • Edmond Fleg, Why I Am a Jew • II. THE CATACLYSM AND THE AFTERMATH • Simone Weil, What Is a Jew? • Robert Gamzon, Tivliout: Harmony • Jacob Gordin, The Galuth • Emmanuel Levinas, The Jewish Experience of the Prisoner • Vladimir Jankélévitch, Judaism, an “Internal Problem” • Sarah Kofman, Smothered Words • III. UNIVERSAL AND PARTICULAR: THE JEW AND THE POLITICAL REALM • Albert Memmi, The Jew, the Nation, and History • Richard Marienstras, The Jews of the Diaspora, or the Vocation of a Minority • André Neher, The Jewish Dimension of Space: Zionism • Henri Atlan, Jerusalem: The Terrestrial, the Celestial • Shmuel Trigano, Klal Israel: The Totality minus One • IV. IDENTIFICATION, DISIDENTIFICATION • Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar, The Lost Children of Judaism • Léon Ashkénazi, Tradition and Modernity • Alain Finkielkraut, From the Novelesque to Memory • Hélène Cixous, Albums and Legends; The Dawn of Phallocentrism • Jacques Derrida, Avowing—the Impossible: “Returns,” Repentance, and Reconciliation, a Lesson • Stéphane Mosès, Normative Modernity and Critical Modernity • Acknowledgments • Suggestions for Further Reading • Index