This essay considers the phenomenon of public Jewish biblical quotation, such as, for instance, “justice, justice shall you pursue,” in times contemporary political crisis. I argue that these references tend to employ a sanitized and selective hermeneutics which overlooks bypasses violent or otherwise “difficult” themes works suggest there is parallel between our refusal come terms with frequen...

This paper offers a comparison of the public significance of youth during two episodes of regime breakdown. It draws on my thesis which explores the meaning of youth in key crisis moments in Europe and the political mobilisation of young people. I selected cases of hybrid regimes with significant mobilisation of young people and an intense struggle about the meaning of youth as part of regime c...