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Thinking Jewish: Identity and the Jew in Western Europe
Author(s): Lambert, Nick
Date: 2002
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community
Jews and Europe in the Twenty-first Century: Thinking Jewish
Author(s): Lambert, Nick
Date: 2007
Topics: Jewish Leadership, Interviews, Rabbis, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The book explores the interplay between minority and mainstream populations, and religious and civic identities in the West, and is based around more than two hundred hours of interviews with prominent Jewish novelists, playwrights, Chief Rabbis, philosophers, sociologists, historians, psychiatrists, economists and parliamentarians in the Netherlands, Britain and Italy.
In Hiding? The Jews of Europe
Author(s): Lambert, Nick
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Memory, European Union
Abstract: The postwar European Jew has been cited as the guardian of memory in Europe, as the conscience of the West in Europe and as a litmus test for that continent's democracy. As the Jews have no geographical particularity in Europe, and could once be found throughout, some suggest they may even be the truest of Europeans. Yet while the circumstances of Western Jewish experience have often been presented as a means through which to inform contemporary discussions on group membership, when it comes to European integration the Jews have often been silent. Why?