Alongside his book, David Encaoua has published a series of articles in Tribune Juive and on the Times of Israel blog.
A May 2024 article, “The divisions of Israeli society, analyzed from the standpoint of Judaism,” offers an original framework for reading the tensions between secular and religious Jews in Israel. An April 2025 article in Tribune Juive, “What are the respective places of history and memory in Judaism?”, draws on Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's book (Zakhor) to explore the fundamental distinction between collective memory and scholarly historiography in the Jewish tradition.
What sets David Encaoua's writings on Judaism apart from classic academic output is a constant concern for accessibility. Trained in the rigor of quantitative economics, he applies the same demand for clarity and precision to his essays on Jewish thought. Each article is structured, argued, and referenced — yet also written in a limpid French that makes these texts accessible to the non-specialist reader. This twofold demand for rigor and accessibility echoes the ambition of Israël Al-Naqua's Menorat HaMaor: to make the wisdom of Judaism accessible to all, including the simplest.