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The Shoah, the organised extermination of most of European Jewry, remains a certainty that is incomprehensible to someone who - like the author of this book - has substantiated it in such detail. In the shadow of the Khurban, Manes Sperber tries to find out, with the passion of common sense and the "religion of good memory," what Jewishness is today for Jews themselves and what it is for non-Jews and enemies of Jewry. In his essays, he shows how Jews, even in times of greatest danger, have never ceased to creatively give meaning to their existence and its continuation-not because of, but in spite of, the grace of divine election, which is the heaviest of all burdens.