 Let us focus for a moment more directly on this question of justice in Jewish thought. Insofar as we can speak of one Jewish philosophical tradition, notably a modern one, the question of justice forms the core of its approach to the prophetic message. In that respect it would certainly have a political dimension; or, at the least, a social-existential one. It may be that to answer the question of the politics (in the minimal sense of State policies) liable to emerge from Levinas’ ethics requires that we pay close attention to his philosophical anthropology, i.e., to his conception of the human condition or what it means to be a human being. Recently, Sarah Hammerschlag has returned to Levinas’ captivity notebooks in which he jotted his wartime insights into Judaism as he lived it then: 