ISBN:
9789004201583
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xviii, [373] Seiten)
Ausgabe:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Erscheinungsjahr:
2011
Serie:
Jewish identities in a changing world 17
Serie:
Jewish identities in a changing world
Paralleltitel:
Print version A Road to Nowhere?
DDC:
305.892/404
Schlagwort(e):
Antisemitism
;
Jews Identity
;
Jews History 21st century
;
Europe Ethnic relations
Kurzfassung:
Jewish Experiences in Unifying Europe, Julius H. Schoeps, Olaf Glöckner, Anja Kreienbrink, 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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
CONTENTS; Introduction; PART I THE JEWISH WORLD CONTEXT; Jews in Europe: Demographic Trends, Contexts and Outlooks; The European Jewish Diaspora: The Third Pillar of World Jewry?; Cultural Pluralism as an American Zionist Option for Solidarity and its Relevance for Today's European Jewry; PART II EUROPEAN JEWISH EXPERIENCES; Between Eurasia and Europe: Jewish Community and Identities in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine; A Dual, Divided Modernization. Reflections on 200 Years of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Ghosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present: New and Old "Others" in Contemporary SpainThe Dialectics of the Diaspora. On the Art of Being Jewish in the Swedish Modernity; Does European Jewry Need a New Ethnic Spiritual Umbrella? Reflections; Farewell to Europe? On French Jewish Skepticism about the New Universalism; The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. New Ethno-National Constellations since 1989; Reading between the Lines. Assertion and Reassertion in European Jewish Life; PART III ANTI-SEMITISM, ISRAEL AND JEWISH POLITICS
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Hate against the Others. About the Fatal Chain Creating Xenophobia and anti-Semitism"Anti-Semites of the Continent Unite!" Is the East still Different?; Anti-Semitism or Judeophobia? The Intellectual Debate in France 2000-2005; From anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political anti-Semitism? On Dynamics of anti-Semitism in post-Communist Hungary; A Mediterranean Bridge over Troubled Water. Cultural Ideas on How to Reconcile Israel with its Neighbours and with Europe; The Future of European Jewry-A Changing Condition in a Changing Context?; Epilogue
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Klal Yisrael Today: Unity and Diversity. Reflections on Europe and Latin America in a Globalized WorldNotes on the Contributors; Bibliography; Main Index; Names Index; List of Tables; List of Graphs
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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