Shmuel Trigano

Shmuel Trigano is a professor of the sociology of politics and religion at Paris University and founder of the Popular University for Judaism. He is the author of 23 books including Le judaïsme et l’esprit du monde (Grasset), which proposes a global theory of Judaism. He is also the author of, in English, The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah: The Unthought in Political Modernity (SUNY Press) and Philosophy of the Law: The Political in the Torah (Shalem Press). He has just published, in French, Fifteen Years of Loneliness: France’s Jews 2000–2015 (Berg International).