A road to nowhere? : Jewish experiences in the unifying Europe / / edited by Julius H. Schoeps and Olaf Glöckner ; in cooperation with Anja Kreienbrink.

• Superior document: Jewish identities in a changing world, v. 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Schoeps, Julius H. 1942-; Glöckner, Olaf.; Kreienbrink, Anja.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Europe is in the midst of a rapid political and economic unification. What does this mean for the Jewish minority – numbering less than 2 million people and still suffering from the aftermath of the Shoah? Will the Jewish communities participate in Europe’s bold venture without risking total assimilation? Are they vibrant enough to form a new Jewish center alongside Israel and the American Jewish community, or are they hopelessly divided and on a “Road to Nowhere”? Different perspectives are predicted, relating to demographical, cultural and sociological aspects. This volume provides exciting, thorough and controversial answers by renowned scholars from Europe, Israel, North- and Latin America – many of them also committed to local Jewish community building. This book is also available in paperback.

Table of Contents

The Jewish world context -- Jews in Europe : demographic trends, contexts and outlooks / Sergio DellaPergola -- The European Jewish diaspora : the third pillar of world Jewry? / Gabriel Sheffer -- Cultural pluralism as an American Zionist option for solidarity its relevance for today's European Jewry / Ofer Schiff -- European Jewish experiences -- Between Eurasia and Europe : Jewish community and identities in contemporary Russia and Ukraine / Vladimir Zeev Khanin -- A dual, divided modernization : reflections on 200 years of the Jewish reform movement in Germany / Micha Brumlik -- Ghosts of the past, challenges of the present : new and old "others" in contemporary Spain / Raanan Rein and Martina Weisz -- The dialectics of the diaspora : on the art of being Jewish in the Swedish minority / Lars Dencik -- Does European Jewry need a new ethnic spiritual umbrella? : reflections / Yosef Gorny -- Farewell to Europe? : on French Jewish skepticism about the new universalism / Pierre Birnbaum -- The return of the European Jewish diaspora : new ethno-national constellations since 1989 / Y. Michal Bodemann -- Reading between the lines : assertion and reassertion in European Jewish life / Antony Lerman -- Anti-semitism, Israel, and Jewish politics -- Hate against the others : about the fatal chain creating xenophobia and anti-semitism / Thomas Gergely -- "Anti-semites of the continent unite!" : is the east still different? / Raphael Vago -- Anti-semitism or judeophobia? : the intellectual debate in France 2000-2005 / Denis Charbit -- From anti-Jewish prejudice to political anti-semitism? : on dynamics of anti-semitism in post-communist Hungary / András Kovács -- A Mediterranean bridge over troubled water : cultural ideas on how to reconcile Israel with its neighbours and with Europe / David Ohana -- The future of European Jewry : a changing condition in a changing context? / Shmuel Trigano.