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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Turning the kaleidoscope; contents; acknowledgements; introduction; part i: overarching questions; chapter 1. a new role for jews in europe; chapter 2. european models of community; chapter 3. concepts of diaspora and galut; chapter 4. 'homo zappiens'; chapter 5. israel and diaspora; part ii: inner-jewish concerns; chapter 6. left over -- living after the shoah; chapter 7. debora's disciples; chapter 8. a jewish cultural renascence in germany?; part iii: the jewish space in europe; chapter 9. the jewish space in europe; chapter 10. caught between civil society and the cultural market |
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Chapter 11. 'the germans will never forgive the jews for auschwitz'. when things go wrong in the jewish spacenotes on contributors; index |
| Summary |
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 culture, language, history, and relations to Jews, European Jewry mirrors that kaleidoscopic diversity. This volume explores such key questions as the new roles for Jews in Europe; models of Jewish community organization in Europe; concepts of diaspora and galut; a European-Jewish way of life in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Jews -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Jews -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Ethnic relations
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Jews
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leveson, Ian
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| ISBN |
9780857455796 |
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0857455796 |
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1306690080 |
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9781306690089 |
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