Abstract: This book is made up of three texts by Yehoshue Perle: Juifs ordinaires (1932), an autobiographical novel translated from the Yiddish by J. Spector and presented by Y. Niborski; L'Anéantissement de la Varsovie juive, presented by N. Weinstock and G. Bensoussan, and “4580”, a bitter reflection on his identity reduced to a number