 In her first essay, “Judentum und Kultur” (“Judaism and Culture”, 1907, hereafter JuK), which was also her first article to appear in Frankfurter Zeitung, Susman offers a succinct argument for the Jewish tradition’s critical significance for rethinking modernity as well as philosophy more generally. Critical of a reductionism that would cast Judaism as simply a form of ethics, she argues that doing so would mean to unthinkingly submit to the tripartition of all human endeavors into esthetics, logics, and ethics. She suggests that, arbitrary and ultimately unfeasible, this approach turns a blind eye to what might well be the most fundamental dimension of all human endeavors, the religious one. For Susman, the sphere of the religious constitutes the focal point of all culture; all other forms of producing value—the ethical, esthetic, and logical ones—gather around it as that which grounds their purpose. Ethics, Susman notes, contrary to widely shared views, has never been Judaism’s single purpose but the means to pursue its task in history (JuK 1).