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Jews in Poland: Between Cultural/Religious Renewal and New Uncertainties
Author(s): Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Integration, Jewish Identity, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
Jewish Experiences and New Encounters in Slovakia
Author(s): Jakobyová, Barbora; Nižňanský, Eduard; Glöckner, Olaf
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Integration, Jewish Identity, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
Ambivalence, Dilemmas, and Aporias of Contemporary Czech Jewish Lived Experience
Author(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Integration, Jewish Identity, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Community, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
New Relations in the Making? Jews and Non-Jews in Germany Reflect on Shoah Memory, Unexpected Growing Jewish Pluralism, Israel, and New Antisemitism
Author(s): Glöckner, Olaf
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Integration, Jewish Identity, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Holocaust Commemoration, Jewish Leadership
Abstract: Our narrative and expert interviews with Jewish and non-Jewish key figures in public and political life mainly focussed on the question of to what extent have Jewish-non Jewish relations changed, compared to the discord prior to 1933, and the general reservation and uncertainty after 1945? We also raised other key questions like: to what extent do Jews in Germany feel integrated into today’s non-Jewish majority society? What do they consider core elements of their Jewish identities? What is the meaning of Israel in their lives as Jews? How do they cope with new trends of antisemitism in Germany? As a complementary question, we wanted to know from our non-Jewish interviewees how different they consider Jewish/non-Jewish relations today? To what extent does Shoah memory (still) affect these relations? How do Jews and non-Jews cooperate in social activities, and are there new, joint strategies to combat antisemitism?

Our interviews revealed that Jews in present-day Germany do not romanticize their lives in the country of the former Nazi regime. However, they appreciate efforts by the state to promote future Jewish life, to carry out dignified politics of commemoration, and to ensure security. Antisemitism is perceived as a societal problem but not as an existential threat. None of the Jewish interview partners considered Germany as a place that is too dangerous for Jews. Memory of the Shoah is considered important, but building a Jewish future, especially for one’s
own children, is the more relevant issue.

A key finding of our interviews in Germany is that a new generation of young Jews has grown up neither justifying living in the “country of the offenders” nor considering themselves representatives of the State of Israel. Young Jews in Germany run their own multifaceted networks, understanding themselves as Jews but to a similar extent also as Germans. Some of them enjoy participation in public and political life, deliberately acting in both roles
Feeling “At Home” or Just Privileged Minorities? Perceptions of Jewish and Non-Jewish Respondents in Contemporary Budapest
Author(s): Lev Ari, Lilach
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Attitudes to Jews, Integration, Jewish Identity, Interviews, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze patterns of integration and inter-relations in contemporary Hungary, as perceived by Jewish and non-Jewish leaders and involved community members from the academia, religious organizations, and the media.
A “Jewish Problem” or a “Society Problem”? Understanding Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe from Jewish and Governmental Perspectives
Author(s): Fireberg, Haim
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Monitoring, European Union, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Policy
A New Era? Christian-Jewish Relations in Post-Cold War Europe
Author(s): Porat, Dina
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Post-1989, Jewish - Christian Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Main Topic: Other
Perceptions of the Holocaust in Slovak Historiography and Among the General Public after the Establishment of the Slovak Republic in 1993
Author(s): Nižňanský, Eduard; Bohová, Katarína
Editor(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2023
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Education, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Denial, History, Politics, Post-1989
Abstract: This text and study presents a brief overview of the most important trends in the Slovak historiography of the Holocaust within recent three decades. Prior to 1989, the Holocaust was a topic marginalized in the country’s historical research. The most important finding that emerges from the analysis of Slovak literature on
the Holocaust is that, besides its obvious historiographic dimension, it was frequently meant to serve political purposes (including in the area of education). The works published after 1989 can be categorized as follows: collections of documents; memoirs; the perspective of the minority; the problem of local aggressors;
the social background of the Holocaust; legal analysis of anti-Jewish legislation; oral history; the so-called Slovak revisionism; and connection between the historiographic and political levels. In this text, we analyze the link between historiography and politics in the example of Vladimír Mečiar’s cabinet and revisionist publications. We also consider the impact of revisionism on the formation of national symbols (the case of a memorial of Ferdinand Ďurčanský) as well as the historiography situated between science and the Catholic Church’s interpretation of history
(of the Slovak state and the beatification of bishop Ján Vojtaššák).
Refugees ‘as Jews’. Travelling Images of Atrocities
Author(s): Kurz, Iwona
Editor(s): Hauser, Jakub; Janáčová, Eva
Date: 2021
Topics: Antisemitism, Attitudes to Jews, Main Topic: Other, Refugees, Racism, Memory, Politics, Immigration, Holocaust
Abstract: During the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, the analogy to Jewish refugees from before World War II was used intensely in public debate. This article, based on the concept of the imaginary (Castoriadis), analyzes the use of this analogy, the presence of the memory of the Holocaust in contemporary discourse, and the use of images and visual clichés associated with this event in contemporary discussions. The theoretical, visual argument is based on the work Positives (2002-2003) by Zbigniew Libera. The material comes from the Polish debate put in this interpretative context. In 2015 Polish society, like most of its Central European neighbours, took the anti-refugee approach, mostly as the result of propaganda activities by media and right-wing parties.
Zum Aktuellen Stand Der Maßnahmen Der Europäischen Union Gegen Antisemitismus
Translated Title: The current status of European Union action against anti-Semitism
Author(s): Elman, R Amy; Grimm, Marc
Editor(s): Grimm, Marc; Kahmann, Bodo
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, European Union
Über Das Motiv Des „Rechtsbrechenden Juden“ In Der Deutschen Kontroverse Um Kulturell-Religiöse Vorhautbeschneidungen 2012
Translated Title: On the motif of the "law-breaking Jew" in the German controversy about cultural-religious foreskin circumcisions 2012
Author(s): Ionescu, Dana
Editor(s): Grimm, Marc; Kahmann, Bodo
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Media, Antisemitism: Discourse, Circumcision / Brit Milah
„Giftiges Natterngezücht“ Antisemitische Argumentationsmuster in der deutschsprachigen Medienberichterstattung über Israel
Translated Title: "Poisonous Adder Spawn" Anti-Semitic argumentation patterns in the German-language media coverage of Israel
Author(s): Markl, Florian
Editor(s): Grimm, Marc; Kahmann, Bodo
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Israel Criticism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Media, Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals
Islamischer Antisemitismus Als Forschungsbereich Über Versäumnisse der Antisemitismusforschung in Deutschland
Translated Title: Islamic antisemitism as a research area On failures of anti-Semitism research in Germany
Author(s): Küntzel, Matthias
Editor(s): Grimm, Marc; Kahmann, Bodo
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim
Vladimir Putin’s ‘War On Fascism’ And The Russian Links To Far-Right And Antisemitic Parties In Europe
Author(s): Tarant, Zbyněk
Editor(s): Grimm, Marc; Kahmann, Bodo
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Far right
Muslimischer Antisemitismus In Europa
Translated Title: Muslim Antisemitism in Europe
Author(s): Jikeli, Günther
Editor(s): Grimm, Marc; Kahmann, Bodo
Date: 2018
Topics: Antisemitism: Muslim, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Contemporary Visual Antisemitism in the Czech Republic
Author(s): Tarant, Zbyněk
Editor(s): Hauser, Jakub; Janáčová, Eva
Date: 2021
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Antisemitism: Christian, Folklore, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Despite the last thirty years of political stability and democratic establishment, antisemitism has not fully disappeared from the Czech Republic. This article aims to deepen our understanding of not only the visual symbols and ideological links, but also of the people who create and disseminate these artworks. Having collected and coded visual antisemitica for the last ten years, the author documents the contrast between traditional depictions of Jews in contemporary Czech folklore (or in what is considered ‘tradition’) and the more esoteric symbolism of the conspiracy theories and political extremism. It is argued that, while the mainstream ‘traditional’ depictions of Jews have retained stereotypical features, the extremist scene has moved forward to a more abstract expression, which pushes our methodological and legal definitions of ‘visual antisemitism’ to, and beyond, their limits.
Impressive and Invisible. Reflections on the Urban Disposition of Synagogue Buildings in Germany Since 1990
Author(s): Löffler, Beate
Editor(s): Keßler, Katrin; Ross, Sarah M.; Staudinger, Barbara; Weik, Lea
Date: 2022
Topics: Synagogues, Jewish Space, Main Topic: Other
The Dynamics of Jewish Space(s): Jewish Agency, Individual, Collective and the Creating, Maintenance or Discarding of Jewish Dominated Jewish Spaces in Cologne
Author(s): Kranz, Dani
Editor(s): Keßler, Katrin; Ross, Sarah M.; Staudinger, Barbara; Weik, Lea
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish Community, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Synagogues, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Space
Jewish Musical Heritage in Post-War Germany: Negotiating Jewish Self-Understanding through Synagogue Chant
Author(s): Ross, Sarah M.
Editor(s): Keßler, Katrin; Ross, Sarah M.; Staudinger, Barbara; Weik, Lea
Date: 2022
Topics: Ethnography, Ethnomusicology, Jewish Community, Jewish Music, Liturgy, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Synagogues, Rabbis
The Historicity Of The Witness: The Polish Relationship To Jews And Germans In The Polish Memory Discourse Of The Holocaust
Author(s): Maischein, Hannah
Editor(s): Grill, Tobias
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust, Memory
Contemporary Jewish Communities in Three European Cities: Challenges of Integration, Acculturation and Ethnic Identity
Author(s): Lev Ari, Lilach
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Community, Immigration, Integration, Antisemitism
Abstract: Contemporary Jewish identity, integration and acculturation in Europe has become an urgent topic in view of the current wave of antisemitism and reliable research on the present state of Jewish identity is scarce. Lilach Lev Ari has chosen three ethnically diverse communities – Paris, Brussels, and Antwerp – that can shed a light on the identity and acculturation of the Jewish minority in Europe. To understand patterns of social integration of native-born and immigrant Jews in the three host societies she applies the correlational quantitative method and has conducted semi-structured interviews. The study can promote further understanding of Jewish continuity within the non-Jewish host societies in a situation, when there is a concern about the resilience and strength of the Jewish communities vis-à-vis new waves of antisemitism.
From Russia to Israel – And Back? Contemporary Transnational Russian Israeli Diaspora
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir Zeev
Date: 2021
Topics: Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Aliyah, Diaspora, Israeli Expatriates, Russian Emigration, Russian-Speaking Jews
Abstract: Of about a million Jews that arrived to Israel from the (former) USSR after 1989 some 12% left the country by the end of 2017. It is estimated that about a half of them left "back" for the FSU, and the rest for the USA, Canada and the Western Europe. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of this specific Jewish Israeli Diaspora group through cutting-edge approaches in the social sciences, and examines the settlement patterns of Israeli Russian-speaking emigrants, their identity, social demographic profile, reasons of emigration, their economic achievements, identification, and status vis-à-vis host Jewish and non-Jewish environment, vision of Israel, migration interests and behavior, as well as their social and community networks, elites and institutions. Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin makes a significant contribution to migration theory, academic understanding of transnational Diasporas, and sheds a new light on the identity and structure of contemporary Israeli society. The book is based on the unique statistics from Israeli and other Government sources and sociological information obtained from the author’s first of this kind on-going study of Israeli Russian-speaking emigrant communities in different regions of the world.
Thirty Years After. The Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow of the Czech Jewish Community
Author(s): Kraus, Tomáš
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Post-1989
Holocaust Memorialization in Poland: A Case Study of Polin Museum
Author(s): Sineaeva-Pankowska, Natalia
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Jewish Museums, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Preserving Jewish Cemeteries as an Actual Challenge in Contemporary Poland
Author(s): Chipczyńska, Anna
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Cemeteries
What is Jewish about Contemporary Central European Jewish Culture?
Author(s): Gebert, Konstanty
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
The Antisemitic Paradox in Europe: Empirical Evidences and Jewish Perceptions. A Comparative Study Between the West and East
Author(s): Fireberg, Haim
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Surveys, Antisemitism: Attitude Surveys
Holocaust Denial as a Symptom of Unresolved European History
Author(s): Porat, Dina
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial
Jewish-Roma Relations in the former Czechoslovakia: An Alliance Against Racism
Author(s): Schuster, Michal
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Comparisons with other communities, Antisemitism, Racism, Roma, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Jews and Muslims in the Czech Republic – Demography, Communal Institutions, Mutual Relations
Author(s): Tarant, Zbyněk
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Comparisons with other communities, Demography, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Jewish Community, Main Topic: Other, Jewish Organisations
Ethno-religious Othering as a Reason Behind the Central European* Jewish Distancing from Israel
Author(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Israel Attachment
The “Missing” and “Missed” Jews in Hungary
Author(s): Vincze, Kata Zsófia
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Assimilation, Jewish Community
Jewish Religious-Cultural Traditions and Identity Patterns in Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Ildikó, Barna; Kovács, András
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Religious Observance and Practice
“Russians,” “Sephardi”, and “Israelis”: The Changing Structure of Austrian Jewry
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir Zeev
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Demography, Israeli Expatriates, Sephardi Jews, Russian-Speaking Jews
Renewal or Regression? Jewish Self-Assertion and Re-Orientation in Twenty-first Century Central Europe
Author(s): Schoeps, Julius H.
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Jewish Renewal, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Jewish Demography in the European Union – Virtuous and Vicious Paths
Author(s): DellaPergola, Sergio
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Demography, Main Topic: Demography and Migration
Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Antisemitism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Jewish life in Europe has undergone dramatic changes and transformations within the 20th century and also the last two decades. The phenomenon of the dual position of the Jewish minority in relation to the majority, not entirely unusual for Jewish Diaspora communities, manifested itself most distinctly on the European continent. This unique Jewish experience of the ambiguous position of insider and outsider may provide valuable views on contemporary European reality and identity crisis. The book focuses inter alia on the main common denominators of contemporary Jewish life in Central Europe, such as an intense confrontation with the heritage of the Holocaust and unrelenting antisemitism on the one hand and on the other hand, huge appreciation of traditional Jewish learning and culture by a considerable part of non-Jewish Europeans. The volume includes contributions on Jewish life in central European countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Germany.
Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain Redefining National Boundaries
Author(s): Weisz, Martina L.
Date: 2019
Topics: Main Topic: Other, National Identity, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals, Memory
Abstract: The book analyzes the place of religious difference in late modernity through a study of the role played by Jews and Muslims in the construction of contemporary Spanish national identity. The focus is on the transition from an exclusive, homogeneous sense of collective Self toward a more pluralistic, open and tolerant one in an European context. This process is approached from different dimensions. At the national level, it follows the changes in nationalist historiography, the education system and the public debates on national identity. At the international level, it tackles the problem from the perspective of Spanish foreign policy towards Israel and the Arab-Muslim states in a changing global context. From the social-communicational point of view, the emphasis is on the construction of the Self–Other dichotomy (with Jewish and Muslim others) as reflected in the three leading Spanish newspapers.