Europe discovers itself, Jews discover Europe -- The glorious nineteenth century: Europe as promised land -- The accursed century: Europe as an ailing culture -- The emergence of the modern European Jew -- Antisemitism as an incurable European disease -- Old Europe or New Europe? -- Manifold Europes -- I am in the East, and my heart is in the West -- Europeanness and anti-Europeanness in Palestine -- Europe, Old or New? -- Between "real Europe" and the "European spirit."
Summary
An exhaustive study of how Jews imagined the idea of Europe and how it existed in their collective memory from the Enlightenment to the present
