For decades, it was believed that the Jewish catastrophe would delegitimize anti-Semitism forever. However, as early as 1945, pogroms were perpetrated in Poland, while in France the 2000s will see an increase in anti-Semitism unprecedented since the war. If the genocide has long overflowed the framework of Jewish communities to become a cultural event in the West, critics appear here and there about its place within the collective memory. That sense of saturation actually stems from a society that made genocide the alpha and omega of creation. Now, contrary to the objective sought, this memorial centrality ended up preventing us from thinking about the present. Tragedy, often reduced to a faded slogan, the "darkest hours in our history", make us forget that the present is fraught with new tragedies, unheard of by definition. And in the same movement, Jewish history, monopolized by genocide, is accused of hiding the other stories within the competence of memoirs.