1st Edition
Jewish Centers and Peripheries Europe Between America and Israel Fifty Years After World War II
Edited By S. Troen
Copyright 1999
452 Pages
by
Routledge
452 Pages
by
Routledge
438 Pages
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Routledge
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After World War II, the center of gravity for world Jewry moved outside Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, large-scale emigration and postwar assimilation resulted in a disheartening contraction of European Jewry, with the notable exception of France. Today, Europe's Jews number only 17 percent of the world Jewish population. At the beginning of this century, they comprised 83 percent and... Read more
Introduction: The Post-Holocaust Dynamics of Jewish Centers and Peripheries PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Reflections on the Jewish Present-Past 2. From Israeli Hegemony to Diaspora Full Autonomy: The Current State of Ethno-National Diasporism and the Alternatives Facing World Jewry PART II: HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION 3. The Involvement and Policies of American Jewry in Revitalizing European Jewry, 1945-1995, 4. National Communism and Jewish Politics: Romanian Chief Rabbi Rosen’s Miracles and Dilemmas PART III: COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES —EASTERN EUROPE 5. Jews in the Former Soviet Union: Between Dissolution and Renaissance 6. Jewish Intellectuals and the Problem of Reconstruction of the Jewish Community in Russia 7. Jewish Hungary Today: The Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary Culture of Hungary 8. The Jewish Communities of Vienna and Cracow: Communities Against All Odds PART IV: COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES —WESTERN EUROPE 9. From Mosaics to Jews: The Rejection of an Unsuccessful Pattern 10. Five Centuries After the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Is the French Jewish Community a Model of a New Golden Age? 11. British Jewry: Prospects and Problems 12. A Community of Paradox: Office, Authority, and Ideas in the Changing Governance of Anglo-Jewry 13. The German Jewish Community: Between Adjustment and Ambivalence 14. The Renaissance of Jewish Learning in Post-World War II Europe PART V: VIEWS FROM AMERICA AND ISRAEL 15. Old World and New World Diasporas: Similar Problems But Different Solutions? 16. Cooperation and Tensions Between American Jewry and Israel Over Selected Problems Confronting European Jewry 17. Sixty Years of World Jewish Congress Diplomacy: From Foreign Policy to the Soul of a Nation 18. Israel and the Diaspora: Roles and Responsibilities
Biography
S. Troen
