 In 1946, she published The Book of Job and the Destiny of the Jewish People. The book was among the first attempts to wrestle with the predicament of how to continue life after Auschwitz. Susman returns to the figure of Job, servant of God, as the paradigmatic figure to reimagine Jewish life after the Shoah. While this book dealt with the challenge to making sense of the Jewish experience, Interpretation of a Great Love: Goethe and Charlotte von Stein (Deutung einer grossen Liebe: Goethe und Charlotte Stein, 1951) scrutinized the remains of the German state of mind by revisiting the twists and turns of the legendary yet conflicted love of Germany’s famed cultural icon, Goethe. Examining the profound but painful and ultimately doomed love affair of the most revered German thinker and artist, Susman shed light on the darker sides of the deep-running issues haunting German affective life.