In 1931, the League of Nations’ Committee on Literature and the Arts asked the Paris-based International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation to organize a public exchange of correspondence between intellectuals that would promote the common interests of the League and of intellectual life. It would not be extreme to surmise that an unconscious collective fantasy about a liberating potential embedded in the interaction in linking towering Jewish intellectuals is what ensured that the two Great Men would launch a dialogue and “stay in touch,” whether or not they found a common language. The universal interpretation they accorded their identity as “godless Jews” also played a part in creating their special public status as cultural superheroes, who represented at one and the same time objective scientific values and humanistic principles that transcend regular political and ideological bounds.