Jewish Identities in the New Europe
Edited by Jonathan Webber

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'Those who care about the future of the Jews and Judaism, whether it be in Europe or elsewhere, will find this a very welcome addition to the literature.'
Ephraim Tabory, Contemporary Jewry

How do the Jews of today's Europe-east and west-regard themselves, fifty years after the Holocaust: as a religious minority, an ethnic group, or simply as ordinary members of the communities in which they live? How do they regard non-Jews and relate to the Jews of other European countries? Is Israel a factor in forging these relationships? In confronting these questions, the contributors to this book-many of them writers with significant international reputations-cover a wide range of topics from different perspectives. Timely, authoritative, and accessible, the book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know about the contemporary concerns of the Jews of Europe.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Jonathan Webber is UNESCO Professor of Jewish and Interfaith Studies at the University of Birmingham, and was formerly Fellow in Jewish Social Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Lecturer in Social Anthroplogy, University of Oxford. He is editor of JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford and the author of two other books to be published by the Littman Library: Traces of Memory: The Ruins of Jewish Civilization in Polish Galicia, in collaboration with photographer Chris Schwarz, and Time, Memory, and Historical Consciousness in the Jewish Tradition: The 1997 Cadbury Lectures.

CONTRIBUTORS

Geoffrey Alderman, Max Beloff, Margaret Brearley, Julius Carlebach, Mikhail Chlenov, Sergio DellaPergola, Evyatar Friesel, Pier Francesco Fumagalli, Konstanty Gebert, Daniel Gutwein, András Kovác, Igor Krupnik, Norman Lamm, Jonathan Magonet, Elisabeth Maxwell, Stephen H. Miller, Jonathan Sacks, Dominique Schnapper, Eliezer Schweid, David Singer, Norman Solomon, Shmuel Trigano, Jonathan Webber, Robert Wistrich

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