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Here it is this ritual bath this Mikveh magnificently Roman a thousand years old in Speyer this important city for the Jewish community in the Middle Ages . here they are this deep staircase these flowered columns these steps marked with the footsteps of so many past bodies of this immense and infinitely wounded but still vivid tradition . here it is these deep waters in which these bodies infinitely purified themselves… Lire la Suite
It was once said that one of Kafka’s nephews went to see him in Prague (this nephew then lived with his wife in Wroclaw, where they both ran a football club) and this nephew asked Kafka about a dream that his wife had had a few nights before, just as he would have normally asked a Rabbi; but these were not normal times, for this nephew was a radical Socialist and had… Lire la Suite