For the first time you confide
with a few family tales
You sister Veronique,
you permit I mention it ?
has converted to Christianity
Nn'yeah but you do it
you've taken that right
No no but
where you surprised ?
Yes, i was surprised
You could do nothing against her choice,
you accompanied her
the Christ !
but wait...
It's a very little sister
much much younger than me
although she is adult
She does what she thinks she has done
The only point where it concerns me...
first there's the question that
I am very profoundly jewish
and my Judaism is a way to
remain faithful towards a certain transmission
- And universality ?
Yes but transmission
universality gives itself
so I can't help my self thinking
that by doing this she
breaks a chain of transmission
or contributes in breaking it
and furthermore it corresponds to
the moment where I'm in the midst
of debating
this little sister of mine
her name is Veronique
the girl child of my father and mother
and I learn of her conversion
in the same time
as I'm running from
one European museum
to another
in search of the portrait
the Veil of Veronica
This young jew
from the calvary of christ
imprinted on a linen sheet
and I'm looking at this face of christ
on that sheet
and this moment i crucial to me
because it's the moment where
the diabolic image that she
had a tendency to project
she becomes saint
It's the moment where the demon
turns good
and then I hear these news
and it has the shock effect on me
as if being struck by lighting
Aha yes
Veronique Levy,
will maybe understand
the Judaism and the Jews
a little better after today?
