 Susman’s response to the murder of millions of Jews and the annihilation of German and most of European Jewry belongs to the earliest attempts to comprehend the abyss of the catastrophe often, at least since the 1980s, referred to as the Holocaust or Shoah. The Book of Job and the Destiny of the Jewish People, published first in 1946 and in a second edition in 1948, with a preface addressing the foundation of the State of Israel, is a meditation on the disastrous attempt at the extermination of the Jewish people. This catastrophic event posed a radical challenge to the question of how to respond to the project of philosophy. Along with the responses of Horkheimer, Adorno, Buber (whose Eclipse of God, published 1952 is a reply, as it were, to, Horkheimer’s Eclipse of Reason, published in 1947 and both intially given as lectures at Columbia University), Levinas, and Sartre, Susman’s intervention marks a decisive turn in rethinking philosophy. As Susman notes in the concluding pages of her book, the problem of the Shoah is not just a concern for the Jews but is deeply connected to the problem of humanity: