Turning the Kaleidoscope : : Perspectives on European Jewry / / ed. by Ian Leveson, Sandra Lustig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bodemann, Y. Michal,; Dencik, Lars,; Dämmig, Lara,; Galchinsky, Michael,; Klapheck, Elisa,; Lawton, Clive A.,; Leveson, Ian,; Lustig, Sandra,; Pinto, Diana,; Rosenberg, Göran,
• HerausgeberIn: Leveson, Ian,; Lustig, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

Far from being a blank space on the Jewish map, or a void in the Jewish cultural world, post-Shoah Europe is a place where Jewry has continued to develop, even though it is facing different challenges and opportunities than elsewhere. Living on a continent characterized by highly diverse patterns of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: Overarching Questions
• 1. A New Role for Jews in Europe: Challenges and Responsibilities
• 2. European Models of Community: Can Ambiguity Help?
• 3. Concepts of Diaspora and Galut
• 4. ‘Homo Zappiens’: A European-Jewish Way of Life in the Era of Globalisation
• 5. Israel and Diaspora: From Solution to Problem
• Part II: Inner-Jewish Concerns: Rebuilding and Continuity
• 6. Left Over – Living after the Shoah: (Re-)building Jewish Life in Europe. A Panel Discussion
• 7. Debora’s Disciples: AWomen’s Movement as an Expression of Renewing Jewish Life in Europe
• 8. A Jewish Cultural Renascence in Germany?
• Part III: The Jewish Space in Europe
• 9. The Jewish Space in Europe
• 10. Caught between Civil Society and the Cultural Market: Jewry and the Jewish Space in Europe. A Response to Diana Pinto
• 11. ‘The Germans Will Never Forgive the Jews for Auschwitz’. When Things Go Wrong in the Jewish Space: The Case of the Walser-Bubis Debate
• Notes on Contributors
• Index