Alain Finkielkraut

Alain Finkielkraut, (b. June 30, 1949) is a French essayist, and son of a Jewish-Polish manufacturer of fine leather goods who was deported to Auschwitz. He currently teaches at the École polytechnique as professor of the "history of ideas and modernity" in the department of humanities and social sciences. Author of a number of books, Finkielkraut is among some of France's public intellectuals who often appear on talk shows and publish columns in... more

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