880-01 Preface; Part A Predicaments; Chapter 1 A Sinuous History; From the Beginning; Enlightment and Fragmentation; Contemporary Challenges; In Conclusion; Chapter 2 Antisemitism and Allosemitism; Antisemitism; Self-Hatred and Other Responses; Allosemitism; Conclusions; Chapter 3 Contemporary Perceptions and Attitudes of Europe's Jews; The Pew Research Center's Portrait of Jewish Americans; JPR and FRA's Survey; Perceptions of Antisemitism; Experiences of Harassment and Discrimination; Conclusions; Part B Facing Hostility; Chapter 4 Belgian Jews: A Long Story; Ever Since the First Clues
880-01/(S Belgian Jewry TodaySources of Antisemitism; Expressions of Judeophobia; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Belgian Sample; The Sample; What Jewishness Means; Belgian Identification and Perceptions of Social Reality; Perceptions of Antisemitism; Experiencing Antisemitism; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Social Features and Perceptions; The Impact of Age Differences; Education; Gender; Marital Status; In Conclusion; Chapter 7 Origins of Jewishness and Community; The Eda Dimension; The Impact of Conversion and Mixed Parenthood; The Εcological and Linguistic Divide; In Conclusion
Chapter 8 Religiosity and AntisemitismReligiosity as Differentiation; Age and Religiosity; In Conclusion; Part C The Challenge; Chapter 9 Belgian Jewry Compared; Summarizing the Data; Belgian Jewry among Europe's Jewries; What We Learn; Chapter 10 Neo-Jewishness and Allosemitism; A Personal Afterword; Appendix; 1 The Questionnaire (excerpts); 2 Conversion and Mixed Parenthood-Impacts on Jewish Religiosity and Identification; 3 Organizational Structures and Institutions of Belgium Jewry; References; Index
Summary
As with most European Jewries today, Belgian Jewry is attacked from many directions. How are these new hardships confronted? Research shows Belgian Jews as "like" many others but "a little more" and their plight highlights the question: is allosemitism surmountable?
