Julie Reich

Julie Reich is a doctorante contractuelle at CECILLE at the University of Lille under the supervision of Prof. Elad Lapidot and in a cotutelle at the Buber-Rosenzweig Institut under the supervision of Prof. Christian Wiese. Her work analyses the transfer of modern Jewish thought from Weimar Germany to post-war France. It does so by focusing on gendered expressions of conceiving an ideal community and political agency in the works of Margarete Susman (1872–1966) and Eliane Amado Lévy-Valensi (1919–2006). This research maps out the specific fields of tension that emerged in the wake of the trauma of the Shoah, the challenges of the women’s rights movement and the creation of the State of Israel. In a close reading of their texts and comparisons to other female thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Hélène Cixous, Sarah Kofman and Judith Butler, she offers a transnational and genealogical study of female figures in political Jewish thought to the present day.