“To undertake to speak of Jewish identity, today as in the past, is to expose oneself to the risks of illegibility: illegibility of meaning. The bearers of this identity themselves are seized with bewilderment as soon as it is a question of saying or understanding themselves: it is as if the reality of this identity could not be said, as if words were tainted with error and gratuitousness as soon as they were uttered, as if Jewish identity, or Judeity, were rejected outside the times and discourses of the times and texts through which it passes.Is Jewish identity from another age, or does it today have a relief other than that which the gaze of others cuts on the surface of the world?” Shmuel Trigano.
