2026
Forthcoming
Sermons sous les décombres
Plon · French original
Out October 8, 2026
Resources
Books
“We are the children of the books we have read and the stories we have been told.”
2025Euh… Comment parler de la mort aux enfants
Bayard · French original
How to say what adults struggle to say, without lying or scaring. A short guide for parents.
Not yet translated into English. Available in French.
2024Comment ça va pas ?
conversations après le 7 octobre
Grasset · French original
Ten conversations, real or imagined, written in the aftershock of October 7. A small treatise of survival.
Not yet translated into English. Available in French.
2022Il n’y a pas de Ajar
monologue contre l’identité
Grasset · French original
A monologue against assignation: Romain Gary / Émile Ajar as antidote to today’s identity obsessions.
Not yet translated into English. Available in French.
2021Living With Our Dead
On Loss and Consolation
Europa Editions · French original: Vivre avec nos morts, Grasset (2021)
Eleven accounts of mourning attended. Bestseller, translated into twenty languages, loosely adapted as the HBO Max series Reformed (2025).
- Babelio Essay Prize 2021
- Prix des Savoirs 2021
2020Comprendre le monde
Bayard Culture · French original
Thinking what living-together means, against the contemporary fractures.
Not yet translated into English. Available in French.
2020Le rabbin et le psychanalyste
l’exigence d’interprétation
Hermann · French original
With Antoine Guggenheim and Anne Dufourmantelle, on what the rabbinic and psychoanalysis share: reading.
Not yet translated into English. Available in French.
2019Anti-Semitism Revisited
How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred
MacLehose Press · French original: Réflexions sur la question antisémite, Grasset (2019)
A reading of antisemitism as both structure and symptom, against the grain of history and the texts.
2017Des mille et une façons d’être juif ou musulman
dialogue avec Rachid Benzine
Seuil · French original
A two-voice dialogue with islamologist Rachid Benzine. Two traditions, a thousand ways of inhabiting them.
Not yet translated into English. Available in French.
2015Comment les rabbins font les enfants
sexe, transmission, identité dans le judaïsme
Grasset · French original
An essay on transmission, identity, and sexuality, drawn from the biblical and Talmudic record.
Not yet translated into English. Available in French.
2013In Eve’s Attire
Modesty, Judaism and the Female Body
MacLehose Press · French original: En tenue d’Ève, Grasset (2013)
How Jewish tradition thinks the female body, modesty, the veil, and what it says about the gaze.