Between Sartre and Levinas: Critical Thinking, Jewish Identity, and Anti-Semitism

Sartre explained Jewish destiny through the anti-Semite. Levinas objected that Judaism is not a result of anti-Semitism. Both rejected liberal abstraction, for opposite reasons. The same fork reappeared in 2022: in Putin's rhetoric of denazifying Ukraine and in an open letter from Ukrainian Jews to Israel.

Media & ResearchAugust 23, 2026
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Sartre explained Jewish destiny through the anti-Semite. Levinas objected that Judaism is not a result of anti-Semitism. Both rejected liberal abstraction, for opposite reasons. The same fork reappeared in 2022: in Putin's rhetoric of denazifying Ukraine and in an open letter from Ukrainian Jews to Israel.

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