Abstract

“Waking up Jewish”. The formula used in 1936 by Bernard Lecache, founder of the International League against Anti-Semitism (LICA), to express a feeling of personal liberation linked to the struggle against the persecutors of the Jews, could at first be understood as the testimony of an assumed Jewishness. On closer examination, as proposed in this article, this fight for emancipation within the first French anti-racist organization lays the foundations for a universalist commitment in this area, refusing the very principle of identity-based assignment.

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