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

By: Webber, Jonathan
Contributor(s): Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Language: English Publisher: London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1994.Description: xix, 307p. ; 24cm.ISBN: 1874774153
Contents:
Contents: Part I, A changing Europe. The Jews of Europe in an age of a new Völkerwanderung / Max Beloff; Changing Jewish identities in the new Europe and the consequences for Israel / E. Schweid; Part II, Demographic and sociological considerations. An overview of the demographic trends of European Jewry / S. DellaPergola; Modern Jewish identities / J. Webber; Judaism in the new Europe / Norman Solomon; Part III, Hopes and uncertainties in religious trends. The Jewish Jew and western culture: fallible predictions for the turn of the century / N. Lamm; From integration to survival to continuity / Jonathan Sacks; The role of the rabbi in the new Europe / J. Magonet; Part IV, Jewish communities and Jewish identities in the former Soviet Union / M.A. Chlenov; Constructing new identities in the former Soviet Union / I. Krupnik; Changes in Jewish identity in modern Hungary / A. Kovács; Jewish identities in Poland / K. Gebert; Part V, Jewish communities in western Europe. Israélites and Juifs: new Jewish identities in France / D. Schnapper; The notion of a "Jewish community" in France / S. Trigano; British Jewry / G. Alderman; Religious practice and Jewish identity in a sample of London Jews / Stephen H. Miller; Jewish identity in the Germany of a new Europe / J. Carlebach; Part VI, Rethinking interfaith relations in a post-holocaust world. The dangers of antisemitism in the new Europe / R.S. Wistrich; The holocaust as a factor in contemporary Jewish consciousness / E. Friesel; The impact of Auschwitz and Vatican II on Christian perceptions of Jewish identity / Elisabeth Maxwell; A new Catholic-Jewish relationship for Europe / P.F. Fumagalli; Possible implications of the New Age movement for the Jewish people / M. Brearley; Part VII, Jewish Europe as seen from without. The new Europe and the Zionist dilemma / D. Gutwein; Jewish renewal in the new Europe: an American Jewish perspective / David Singer.
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"This collection of essays derives from a symposium held in Oxford in 1992" (p.vii).

Includes bibl. notes.

Contents: Part I, A changing Europe. The Jews of Europe in an age of a new Völkerwanderung / Max Beloff; Changing Jewish identities in the new Europe and the consequences for Israel / E. Schweid; Part II, Demographic and sociological considerations. An overview of the demographic trends of European Jewry / S. DellaPergola; Modern Jewish identities / J. Webber; Judaism in the new Europe / Norman Solomon; Part III, Hopes and uncertainties in religious trends. The Jewish Jew and western culture: fallible predictions for the turn of the century / N. Lamm; From integration to survival to continuity / Jonathan Sacks; The role of the rabbi in the new Europe / J. Magonet; Part IV, Jewish communities and Jewish identities in the former Soviet Union / M.A. Chlenov; Constructing new identities in the former Soviet Union / I. Krupnik; Changes in Jewish identity in modern Hungary / A. Kovács; Jewish identities in Poland / K. Gebert; Part V, Jewish communities in western Europe. Israélites and Juifs: new Jewish identities in France / D. Schnapper; The notion of a "Jewish community" in France / S. Trigano; British Jewry / G. Alderman; Religious practice and Jewish identity in a sample of London Jews / Stephen H. Miller; Jewish identity in the Germany of a new Europe / J. Carlebach; Part VI, Rethinking interfaith relations in a post-holocaust world. The dangers of antisemitism in the new Europe / R.S. Wistrich; The holocaust as a factor in contemporary Jewish consciousness / E. Friesel; The impact of Auschwitz and Vatican II on Christian perceptions of Jewish identity / Elisabeth Maxwell; A new Catholic-Jewish relationship for Europe / P.F. Fumagalli; Possible implications of the New Age movement for the Jewish people / M. Brearley; Part VII, Jewish Europe as seen from without. The new Europe and the Zionist dilemma / D. Gutwein; Jewish renewal in the new Europe: an American Jewish perspective / David Singer.