Weil went to a lot of trouble to avoid this kind of categorization (for which we all know the popular term these days) and is uninformative with respect to her

Weil went to a lot of trouble to avoid this kind of categorization (for which we all know the popular term these days) and is uninformative with respect to her work. She wrote a letter to the Vichy Minister of Education in 1940, What is a Jew?. She writes 'I myself, who profess no religion and never have, have certainly inherited nothing from the Jewish religion, Mine is the Christian, French, Greek tradition. The Hebraic tradition is alien to me and no statute can make it otherwise.'