A sociologist, Simon Wuhl (1940-2024) first worked on unemployment, exclusion and integration policy — Du chômage à l'exclusion ? (Syros, 1991), Insertion : les politiques en crise (PUF, 1996) — before turning his research to the theories of social justice of Rawls, Walzer and Sen, in L'Égalité. Nouveaux débats (PUF, 2002) and Discrimination positive et justice sociale (PUF, 2007). An associate professor at the Université de Marne-la-Vallée and later a lecturer at the CNAM, in the last part of his work he explored his relationship to Jewishness — marked by his father's death at Auschwitz — and contemporary Jewish thought, writing Pour un judaïsme culturel (Le Bord de l'eau, 2013), Modernités juives et laïcités (Le Bord de l'eau, 2015) and Michael Walzer et l'empreinte du judaïsme (Le Bord de l'eau, 2017), of which he was France's foremost specialist. A member of the Plurielles editorial committee, he died in 2024 at the age of 84.
