Jewish tradition has, over millennia and across continents, fostered the notion of an unbroken existence of Judaism. Alfred Bodenheimer uncovers the roots of this extraordinary tradition and demonstrates how this idea has managed to persist to this day. Starting from the concept of trauma transport, he clarifies that the unbroken narrative flow of Jewish tradition is always associated with a brokenness, revealing Jewish history as a history of crises. The act of storytelling emerges as a figure of integration, conveying and imbuing meaning to the fate of exile and diaspora. The author examines, in four interconnected essays, the evolution of this storytelling and the threats to Jewish tradition from biblical times to the present, particularly after the Shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel.