The Germans love Nathan. However, Lessing's stage character could not fulfill the hope that one day it would no longer matter whether someone is Jewish. And when Hannah Arendt accepted the Lessing Prize in 1959, she explicitly spoke out against the idea of assimilation in her acceptance speech, which would ultimately lead to the disappearance of Jewish identity. The Jewish dilemma between adaptation and autonomy has not been resolved since the Enlightenment - even the State of Israel stands in this tension between secular and religious identity. Natan Sznaider is convinced that this contradiction will never disappear. What is wrong with accepting it and acknowledging that we are, after all, equal as unequals?.