The book of smugglers
Father and daughter Armand Abécassis and Éliette Abécassis, together for the first time in a book, offer an unprecedented approach to the world’s oldest religion.
From Genesis to Philip Roth, through the books of the prophets and their most knowledgeable commentators, through writings from all times, all eras, and all genres – poetry, novel or mysticism – they show the secret and fertile links that unite texts and writers who are diverse, if not opposed, but whose relationship to the absolute is always their hallmark.
Armand Abécassis and Éliette Abécassis were keen to write a book that is open; a book in their image: committed, yet respectful of others; affirmative, yet open to doubts; generous, yet always attentive to the question of the Other. A book of sharing – like an invitation to open up, to hear ourselves.
In connivance with the etymology of the word “Hebrew”, sometimes translated as “Passer”, these two charismatic figures transmit an experience of Judaism and its readings that is as learned as it is sensitive, enlightened and enlightening.
