Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuania

Lithuania

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n-born French Jewish philosopher and Talmud

Talmud

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ic commentator.
Emanuelis Levinas (later adapted to French

French language

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 orthography

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 as Emmanuel Levinas) received a traditional Jewish education in Lithuania. After the Second World War, he studied the Talmud

Talmud

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 under the enigmatic "Monsieur Chouchani

Monsieur Chouchani

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", whose influence he acknowledged only late in his life.

Levinas began his philosophical studies at Strasbourg University in 1924, where he began his lifelong friendship with the French philosopher Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

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.