Research Catalog

Title

Jewish identities in the new Europe / edited by Jonathan Webber.

Publication

London ; Washington : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Webber, Jonathan (Jonathan Meir)
• Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Description

xix, 307 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Among the problems considered are: what the Furure holds for the Jews of Europe; what it means to be Jewish in the countries of Eastern Europe; hopes and uncertainties in religious trends; development of interfaith relations.

Series Statement

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Uniform Title

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Subject

• Europa
• 1900-1999
• Jews > Europe > Identity > Congresses
• Jews > Europe > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence > Congresses
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Jews
• Jews > Identity
• Identität
• Kongress
• Juden
• Joden
• Culturele identiteit
• Europe
• Juden

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "The collection of essays presented in this volume derives from a symposium held in Oxford in 1992"--Page [vii].
• "Published for the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Jonathan Webber -- The Jews of Europe in the age of a new Völkerwanderung / Max Beloff -- Changing Jewish identities in the new Europe and the consequences for Israel / Eliezer Schweid -- An overview of the demographic trends of European Jewry / Sergio DellaPergola -- Modern Jewish identities / Jonathan Webber -- Judaism in the new Europe : discovery or invention? / Norman Solomon -- The Jewish Jew and Western culture : fallible predictions for the turn of the century / Norman Lamm -- From integration to survival to continuity : The third great era of modern Jewry / Jonathan Sacks -- The role of the rabbi in the new Europe / Jonathan Magonet -- Jewish communities and Jewish identities in the former Soviet Union / Mikhail A. Chlenov -- Constructing new identities in the former Soviet Union : the challenge for the Jews / Igor Krupnik -- Changes in Jewish identity in modern Hungary / András Kovács -- Jewish identities in Poland : new, old, and imaginary / Konstanty Gebert -- Israelites and Juifs : new Jewish identities in France / Dominique Schnapper -- The notion of a 'Jewish community' in France : a special case of Jewish identity / Shmuel Trigano -- British Jewry : religious community or ethnic minority? / Geoffrey Alderman -- Religious practice and Jewish identity in a sample of London Jews / Stephen H. Miller -- Jewish identity in the Germany of a new Europe / Julius Carlebach -- The dangers of antisemitism in the new Europe / Robert S. Wistrich -- The Holocaust as a factor in contemporary Jewish consciousness / Evyatar Friesel -- The impact of Auschwitz and Vatican II on Christian perceptions of Jewish identity / Elisabeth Maxwell -- A new Catholic-Jewish relationship for Europe / Pier Francesco Fumagalli -- Possible implications of the New Age movement for the Jewish people / Margaret Brearley -- The new Europe and the Zionist dilemma / Daniel Gutwein -- Jewish renewal in the new Europe : an American Jewish perspective / David Singer.

ISBN

• 1874774153
• 9781874774150

LCCN

93047335

OCLC

• ocm29519401
• 29519401
• SCSB-2010609

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library