L’Arche, Dictionary of French Judaism, “Abraham”

André Neher

1972

The Jewish man is first and foremost the Hebrew man, and the Jewish man, since he is Hebrew, is the man of origins. Origins of what? Origins of what all of us are, origins of Western as well as Eastern civilizations, of Judaism, of Christianity, of Islam, of humanism, of Marxism, origins of the vast culture we generally refer to as biblical culture…

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André Neher

1914–1988

Born in Obernai, Germany (now France), André Neher had an early academic interest focused on German literature, but the events of the Holocaust led him to theological–philosophical inquiry instead. During World War II, Neher fled to Brive-la-Gaillarde, where he became a member of Rabbi David Feuerwerker’s community. Neher’s most influential writings engage the question of divine silence in the aftermath of the Holocaust. He also collaborated with his wife, Renée Neher-Bernheim, on several Jewish historical studies.

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