Simon-Nahum, Perrine <br/><br/>
« Penser le judaïsme ». Retour sur les Colloques des intellectuels juifs de langue française (1957-2000) 

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<br/><br/> One cannot possibly declare oneself as a Jew by the end of the war as one might have before the war. Starting from 1957, Symposiums of French speaking Jewish intellectuals meet in order to think over about the meaning of Judaism in contemporary France, with moreover a feeling of bruised citizenship. Initiated by Edmond Fleg and Leon Algazi, they gather many Jewish intellectuals who choose to start again from tradition as a question about their condition as modern men. First closely related to Orsay School, many members of which appear in these meetings, the Symposiums will go through three important historical pe-riods. Between 1957 and 1968, they carry out a research about “Jewish awareness” which falls within the philosophical trends of that period. The link with history and messianism represents the heart of their questionings. Since most of the founders left for Israel, and the Six-days war, and then the Kippur war, the following years reveal a more political trend, the more so as the encounter with social sciences deals with questionings about society. During 1980 and the following years, under the influence both of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and the importance endowed upon the question of the situation of Judaism in the French political and intellectual landscape, the Symposiums think over the contemporary Jewish conditions in terms of belonging and ethics .