André Neher, a Switchman of History

The itinerary of André Neher (1914-1988) is marked by the fracture operated by Nazism. Since then, the absolute necessity of rebuilding a Judaism present to its time has been vital to him. He does so by combining: the prophetic exigence and the necessity of challenging God’s silence; a humanism in tension between mysticism and reason; the motive of the “rise” to Jerusalem, with the will to take part in the construction of the State of Israel, to which he confers a messianic dimension.