Talks & interviews

Talks and interviews on secular Jewish culture, history, and transmission.

2009 — “Sionismes pluriels”
Livres des mondes juifs

A round table at the Livres des mondes juifs festival: the plurality of Zionism’s currents and how they are read, with the historian Élie Barnavi, the political scientist Denis Charbit and Ilan Greilsammer.

2010 — “Les précurseurs”
Les Juifs et la modernité

A session of the colloquium “Les Juifs et la modernité”, on the thinkers who were its forerunners, with the philosopher Pierre Bouretz, Ariane Bendavid and Myriam Revault d’Allonnes.

2012 — “Récits des origines”
Livres des mondes juifs

A colloquium at the Livres des mondes juifs festival: founding narratives and their transmission, with the sociologist Régine Azria, the physician Jean-Claude Ameisen, Jacques Le Rider and the rabbi Rivon Krygier.

2014 — “Désacraliser le judaïsme”
with Isabelle Pleskoff · mahj

A conversation at the Museum of Jewish Art and History, on secular Jewish culture and political commitment. Also on the mahj site and at the USHMM.

2017 — “Reconstruire la vie après la catastrophe et l’épreuve”
Institut Élie Wiesel

A talk given on 21 February 2017 at the Institut Élie Wiesel, on rebuilding the self after trauma — the ordeal of the camps, and what makes a life possible again.

2017 — “La Shoah m’a fait perdre la foi”
portrait · with Antoine Mercier

A filmed portrait, led by the journalist Antoine Mercier: from the shtetl of Dęblin to scientific research, and the religious faith lost after the Shoah.

2017 — “Sortir d’Égypte, sortir de quoi ?”
with David Banon

A collective study for Pessah: what the departure from Egypt is a departure from — a psychic, philosophical and spiritual reading, with the philosopher David Banon.