Les Juifs ont ils un avenir ?

Unprecedented and unequalled - perhaps the first great dialogue of the XXIst century on Judaism and Jewish identity. A man and a woman, a couple. A research tandem. Two historians of Judaism and Jewishness. He specialises in the antique and medieval periods while she is a specialist of modern and contemporary times. Two Jews with their lives and their thoughts. And one question: that of identity, in all it's dimensions. Attias and Ben Bassa are sometimes paradoxical, often iconoclastic but always passionate in this critically enlightening dialogue that will no doubt shake the foundations of conformist thought, prejudice and dominant discourse. A most provocative essay that questions many contemporary representations, from the confusion between Judaism and the bible to the "civil religion" of holocaust. Among other works, Jean-Christopher Attias wrote La commentaire biblique and Esther Benbassa, L'Histoire des juifs de France. Both teach religious science at a prestigious French university. Together they have written Dictionnaire de civilisation juive, Israël imaginaire and La haine de soi.