1. In doing so, Edmond Fleg was calling for an exploration of the living texts of traditional Judaism as the basis for a modern Jewish identity, establishing a new literary direction devoted to re-interpreting biblical texts and legends, and liturgies.
Edmond Fleg was born in Geneva on 26 November 1874 to a Swiss-based Alsatian Jewish family.
At the time of his birth, Edmond Fleg's parents were residing in Geneva, but their familial roots were in France.
Edmond Fleg began his formal education, first, in Paris at the Lycee Louis Le Grand and then at Ecole Normale Superieure.
Edmond Fleg became the best friend of the editor Lucien Moreau, later one of the leaders of the Action Francaise.
Edmond Fleg won the Croix de Guerre and he was honored later, in 1937, by being made an officer of the Legion of Honor.
Edmond Fleg's work was influenced by the disturbances caused by the Dreyfus affair, by his participation in the Third Zionist Congress in Basel and by the reports of pogroms.
Edmond Fleg came to believe that the injustice was a sign that he shared the same destiny of Dreyfus by the mere fact that they were both Jews, whether he liked it or not.
From 1923 Edmond Fleg edited Judaisme, a book series published by Les Editions Rieder, Paris.
Edmond Fleg's writing can be divided into three main categories: religious poetry, biographical works, and autobiographical and other essays on Jewish themes.
Edmond Fleg he compiled anthologies, and translated and adapted work by other writers and poets.
Edmond Fleg translated a part of the Bible in French; Genesis in 1946 and Exodus in 1963.