Abstract: In June 1940, Denise-Rachel Goitein, then eighteen years old, fleeing Paris with her family, landed in New York and met Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, who went on to introduce her to the literature of Léon Bloy. This significant first encounter would allow the young student, who went on to become a professor of literature at Tel-Aviv University, to write, thirty years later, an article on Léon Bloy et les Juifs, which Cardinal Lustiger hailed as the article he had been waiting for.
