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Jacob Gordin or the Judaism of a European Philosopher : Saint-Petersbourg – Berlin – ParisThe archives of Jacob Gordin (1896-1947) enable us to better understand his initial philosophical training in Russia, which had already been nourished by German references – principally neo-Kantian – and how as a young student he sought to interpret the events of the Russian revolution and the evolution of history against this Judeo-Russian-Germanic background. His marginalia from the years 1923-1933 allow us to see how he was then immersed in Berlin in both the Russian intellectual émigré and Wissenschaft (Science of Judaism) milieus, and to thus better understand the intellectual project that he began to elaborate at that time, notably his PhD thesis. Obligated to flee Germany as it was taken over by the Nazis, Gordin did not find as favorable a welcome in France from an intellectual point of view. He tried on several occasions to transpose the model of German-Jewish scientific institutions, in hopes of recreating an environment in which the encounter between philosophical and Jewish thought that he sought could flourish.