A Road to Nowhere?: Jewish Experiences in Unifying Europe

CONTENTS......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
PART I THE JEWISH WORLD CONTEXT......Page 20
Jews in Europe: Demographic Trends, Contexts and Outlooks......Page 22
The European Jewish Diaspora: The Third Pillar of World Jewry?......Page 54
Cultural Pluralism as an American Zionist Option for Solidarity and its Relevance for Today’s European Jewry......Page 64
PART II EUROPEAN JEWISH EXPERIENCES......Page 80
Between Eurasia and Europe: Jewish Community and Identities in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine......Page 82
A Dual, Divided Modernization. Reflections on 200 Years of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany......Page 110
Ghosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present: New and Old “Others” in Contemporary Spain......Page 122
The Dialectics of the Diaspora. On the Art of Being Jewish in the Swedish Modernity......Page 140
Does European Jewry Need a New Ethnic Spiritual Umbrella? Reflections......Page 170
Farewell to Europe? On French Jewish Skepticism about the New Universalism......Page 178
The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. New Ethno-National Constellations since 1989......Page 198
Reading between the Lines. Assertion and Reassertion in European Jewish Life......Page 208
PART III ANTI-SEMITISM, ISRAEL AND JEWISH POLITICS......Page 218
Hate against the Others. About the Fatal Chain Creating Xenophobia and anti-Semitism......Page 220
“Anti-Semites of the Continent Unite!” Is the East still Different?......Page 226
Anti-Semitism or Judeophobia? The Intellectual Debate in France 2000–2005......Page 240
From anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political anti-Semitism? On Dynamics of anti-Semitism in post-Communist Hungary......Page 266
A Mediterranean Bridge over Troubled Water. Cultural Ideas on How to Reconcile Israel with its Neighbours and with Europe......Page 288
The Future of European Jewry—A Changing Condition in a Changing Context?......Page 312
Klal Yisrael Today: Unity and Diversity. Reflections on Europe and Latin America in a Globalized World......Page 318
Notes on the Contributors......Page 354
Bibliography......Page 360
Main Index......Page 382
Names Index......Page 386
List of Tables......Page 390
List of Graphs......Page 392