Sublime

FOR ALMOST TWO MILLENNIA—1,762 years, to be precise—the Jews would live without political autonomy. They would make their homes in lands ruled by others, hosted by people who would treat them better at times, worse at others. For the most part, there would be no serious attempt to restore Jewish sovereignty until 1897, when Theodor Herzl gathered h

It is only recently that the elaboration, the modeling of one’s personal and social identity, has been reorganized to conform to the uninterrupted operation of markets, information networks, and other systems.

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Par là, ils fournissent une sorte de ressource d’identité nouvelle sur un plan à la fois politique et social. Et il est significatif qu’ils le fassent précisément en revenant au judaïsme par le biais d’une réflexion sociopolitique, en le déclinant expressément en termes sociopolitiques, et non pas théologiques5.