Introduction: God on Our Side / God on God’s Own Side

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Chronology of Levinas’s Talmudic Lectures at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française xv
6. Introduction: God on Our Side / God on God’s Own Side 1
7. 1 Being-Jewish, from Vilna to Paris 15
8. 2 The Alliance Israélite Universelle, Shushani, and the École Normale Israélite Universelle 53
9. 3 The Talmudic Lectures at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française 89
10. 4 Hebrew into Greek: Translation and Exemplarism 127
11. Conclusion: Constitutive Dissymmetry 165
12. Notes 183
13. Index 211
14. Cultural Memory in the Present 221