Edmond Fleg | |
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| Born | Edmond Flegenheimer 26 November 1874 |
| Died | 15 October 1963 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | Swiss-French |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, essayist, poet, playwright, translator |
| Organization(s) | French Legion of Honor, Alliance Israélite Universelle, Jewish Christian Fellowship Society, Éclaireurs Israélites |
| Notable work | Why I am a Jew, Écoute Israel |
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| Awards | Narcisse-Leven prize |
Edmond Flegenheimer better known as Edmond Fleg, (26 November 1874 – 15 October 1963) was a Jewish French writer, thinker, novelist, essayist and playwright of the 20th century. Fleg's oeuvre was crucial in constructing a modern French Jewish identity, rendering him an instrumental figure in the Jewish awakening during the interwar years. After World War I, Jewish writers began articulating a new, cultural definition of what it meant to be a Jew within the context of French Third Republic universalism. Through his writings — based on Jewish and Christian texts—Fleg formed the foundation of a modern French Jewish spirituality and self-understanding, which allowed secular French Jews to preserve their Jewish identity.[1] In doing so, Fleg was calling for an exploration of the living texts of traditional Judaism as the basis for a modern Jewish identity, establishing a new literary direction devoted to re-interpreting biblical texts and legends, and liturgies.[2]
- ^ Wolitz, Seth L. (1994). "Imagining the Jew in France: From 1945 to the Present". Yale French Studies (85): 119–34. doi:10.2307/2930070. JSTOR 2930070.
- ^ Kavka, Martin (2006-10-18). "Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. By Samuel Moyn. Cornell University Press, 2005. 268 pages. $29.95". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 74 (4): 1003–1005. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfl011. ISSN 1477-4585.