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Reading between the Lines. Assertion and Reassertion in European Jewish Life
Author(s): Lerman, Antony
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Revival, Jewish Renewal, Post-1989
Communities and Jewish Identity in Europe', Transcript of First Plenary of the Third General Assembly of European Jewry, Budapest 20–23 May 2004
Author(s): Lerman, Antony; Kosmin, Barry; Chelnov, Mikhail; Trigano, Shmuel; Senderey, Alberto
Date: 2005
Topics: Demography, Jewish Revival, Jewish Community, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: The European Jewish reality today confounds predictions of decline with demographic decline. We can see that predictions of Jewish decline don't mean that the data was wrong, but rather the interpretation of the data on Jewish life was wrong. To look at the inevitably flawed data and not see trends that cannot be altered is just bad futurology. The fact is (and we know it from our daily life, work life as well as leisure life) that today information is power. Without information about who we as Jews in Europe are, we cannot seriously build a future. The kind of information we need about ourselves is not just how many we are and where we are. This kind of information is sometimes impossible to know definitively. We really need to know what kind of Jews we are, what kind of Jewish identities form our being, what makes up Jewish identities today.
The Attachment of European Jews to Israel: The British Perspective
Author(s): Lerman, Antony; Kosmin, Barry; Goldberg, Jacqueline
Date: 1997
Topics: Attitudes to Israel, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: The attachment of Diaspora Jews to Israel can no longer be taken for granted. In recent years, there has been a radical shift from a community-wide consensus concerning attachment to Israel, which was probably as secular as it was religious, to a more narrowly based attachment linked to religiosity and to personal experience. At the same time, there is declining support for Israel-oriented charities. In the future, Israel will increasingly appeal more to Traditional and Orthodox Jews than to other members of the Jewish community, and Zionism as an ideology will become increasingly irrelevant. In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.74 no.2, Winter 1997.
The attachment of British Jews to Israel
Author(s): Kosmin, Barry; Lerman, Antony; Goldberg, Jacqueline
Date: 1997
Topics: Surveys, Attitudes to Israel, Israel Attachment, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: The findings in this report are based on a 1995 postal survey of a sample of 2,194 British Jews.

Overall it was found that 43 per cent of the sample felt a strong attachment to Israel, 38 per cent were moderately attached, 16 per cent expressed no special attachment, while 3 per cent had negative feelings towards Israel.

When respondents selected one of the following ways of self-identification, 18 per cent replied that they felt 'more British than Jewish', 54 per cent that they felt 'equally British and Jewish' and 26 per cent that they felt 'more Jewish than British'. Only 2 per cent were unsure.

Statistically significant differences are found by sex (women are more strongly attached than men), age (older age groups are more strongly attached than the young) and region.The findings also demonstrated a strikingly clear pattern of strengthening attachment to Israel as the degree of commitment to traditional Judaism rises.

The findings point to the significance of experiencing Israel for younger people. The young have a psychological and emotional deficit that has to be compensated for by visiting Israel.
Social and political attitudes of British Jews
Author(s): Miller, Stephen; Schmool, Marlena; Lerman, Antony
Date: 1996
Topics: Social Attitudes, Politics, Surveys, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Assumptions about the attitudes and opinions of British Jews influence policy formation on key issues affecting Jewish life. Yet prior to the publication of this survey in 1996, on most issues - from internal communal problems, to social and political matters - there was no reliable information on Jewish attitudes. Policy planning suffered as a result. To fill this crucial information gap, the JPR commissioned a survey of social and political attitudes of British Jews, the first of its kind. The aim was to produce a profile of the community defined in the broadest possible terms. Uniquely, the survey focused on the interface between Jewish identity and the social and political attitudes of Jews.
A Framework for Considering European Jewry's Challenges 
Author(s): Lerman, Antony
Date: 2003
Topics: Nationalism, National Identity, Diversity, Pluralism, Jewish Identity, European Union, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a renewed emphasis on an Europe of nations, rather than on communities, which has been echoed in European Jewish communities. This backlash against diversity and pluralism is partly due to inept Jewish communal leadership and a lack of an effective pan-Europe Jewish organization. In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.79 no.2-3, Winter-Spring 2002-2003. 
Special Issue on Antisemitism in Europe: 1
Author(s): Bauer, Yehuda; Benz, Wolfgang; Cała, Alina; Jelinek, Yeshayahu A.; Krzeminski, Ireneusz; Lerman, Antony; Löwe, Heinz-Dietrich; Pulzer, Peter; Vago, Raphael; Yukhneva, Natalia; Karady, Viktor
Date: 1993
Topics: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Holocaust, Islamic Fundamentalism, Nationalism, Minorities, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: Selected papers from an international conference organized by the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforshung, Berlin, in association with the Institute of Jewish Affairs, London, and the Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism, Jerusalem 
Antisemitism in the 1990s: A Symposium
Author(s): Beloff (Lord); Benz, Wolfgang; Billig, Michael; Cesarani, David; Cohn-Sherbok, Dan; Cruise O'Brien, Conor; Elazar, Daniel J.; Dinerstein, Leonard; Fein, Helen; Gebert, Konstanty; Glazer, Nathan; Gould, Julius; Jakobovitz, Immanuel (Lord); Kushner, Tony; Leibler, Isi; Lerman, Antony; Marrus, Michael R.; Mitten, Richard; Pelinka, Anton; Pouakov, Leon; Raab, Earl; Rotensreich, Nathan; Roth, Stephen J.; Schnapper, Dominique; Strauss, Herbert A.; Wisse, Ruth R.; Wistrich, Robert; Wodak, Ruth
Date: 1991
Topics: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Holocaust, Islamic Fundamentalism, Nationalism, Antisemitism: New Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: We recently addressed the following statement and questions on the strength and nature of anti-Semitism in the 1990s to a number of Jews and non-Jews throughout the world:

Talk of a ‘revival’ or ‘resurgence’ of anti-Semitism is now commonplace. This seems to be the result of developments in the former USSR and in Eastern and Central Europe since 1989, but also of increasing reports of anti-Semitic incidents taking place throughout Western Europe and similar problems emerging in North America, South America, Australia and South Africa.
1) How serious is the recent ‘resurgence’ of anti-Semitism? Is this in any sense a global phenomenon? Is talk of a ‘revival of antisemitism’ justified?
2) What are in your view the most important contemporary manifestations of anti-Semitism? Should anti-Semitism still mainly be seen as a phenomenon of extreme right- and left-wing politics and ideology, or is contemporary anti-Semitism more seriously present in popular culture, within political and social élites, in the school playground?
3) What role, if any, do you think the conflict between Israel and the Arab world is playing in fostering anti-Jewish sentiment? How important is the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism in this context? To what extent is anti-Semitism today taking the guise of anti-Zionism?
4) Finally, if there is indeed an upsurge in antiswemitism, what do you think are its major causes? What part is nationalism, particularly in the Commonwealth of Independent States and in Eastern and Central Europe, playing in causing or exacerbating contemporary anti-Semitism? Do you agree that there was until recently a post-Holocaust taboo on anti-Semitism that has now been lifted?