I am proud of having been listed among the contributors of your recent and remarkable issue (‘The exile of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad’). Yet, I should make clear that my contribution is quite modest. My work simply consisted in editing – in offering an article-size synthesis of – Igal Bursztyn’s book Face as a Battlefield. I hope that my summary of this book was a faithful one, respecting both the thinking and the style of Bursztyn who is not only a noted director, but a writer