Jew and Arab are constituted through a partaking that is both division and participation

Evidence

It constitutes the Jew and the Arab, the Muslim and the Jew, as the haunting figure(s) of an encounter where nothing comes together but what I will call the “partaking” of roads taken and not taken, a partage des voies. In the existing English edition of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Le partage des voix, partage is translated as “sharing,” but it also could be translated as “division,” a sense that is lost in English. Here, I want to appropriate the term “partaking” for this sense of partage, a sense beyond “sharing,” and to appropriate it by taking it apart-as “part taking”: both “parting and taking part,” without the participatory, fusionary logic of “sharing.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 569

Categorization

• DEFINE: Anidjar’s coinage of ‘partaking’ (partage des voies) as both parting and taking part is central terminology for the whole book.