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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.
Scriptural Reasoning among Jews and Muslims in London: Dynamics of an Inter-Religious Practice
Author(s): van Esdonk, Susanne; Wiegers, Gerard
Date: 2019
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Text Study, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: Scriptural Reasoning (SR)—the philosophical inter-religious study of foundational religious texts—came into being as an academic practice in the 1990s. In this article, based on empirical research, we analyse how in London over the past decades this practice has gradually been applied by new groups—including as a means for Jewish-Muslim engagement, the focus of our research. We discuss the ways in which the role of the foundational religious texts in SR practices has changed and how Jewish and Muslim initiators and participants at the local level now navigate between academic theological guidelines, daily interactions, and grassroots’ objectives for inter-religious engagement. We argue that SR practices, after having been adapted to community and individual needs and responding to religious and social caveats from different sides, provide a meaningful approach to constructive and dynamic interaction and engagement between Jews and Muslims at a grassroots level.
“Remembering Semitism” or “On the Prospect of Re-Membering the Semites”
Author(s): Hochberg, Gil Z.
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Islamophobia, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Racism, Antisemitism: Far right
Abstract: Today, a growing number of French Jews embrace the far-right French Front National party, which has a long history of anti-Semitism – how did we get here? How is it that Jews turn to the French authorities for protection against so-called Muslim anti-Semitic violence? How is it that we see a similar pattern across Europe: in Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Britain? This essay addresses these questions by calling atten-tion to the role played by the absent-present Christian West in creating and aggravat-ing tensions between Jews and Muslims while seemingly fulfilling the role of mediation between the two. The essay suggests that current popular images of Jews and Muslims circulating in Western media ironically echo nineteenth-century European depictions of Semites – both Jews and Muslims as devoted monotheistic fanatics controlled by zeal and despotism and in need of external salvation. The bulk of the essay thus focuses on “Semitism” and examines the role of nineteenth-century European philology in dissemi-nating Western perceptions of Jewish and Muslim inferiority. Finally, the essay advocates a re-appropriation of Semitism as an alternative memory, or rather a re-memory which as such is also a re-membering of Jews and Muslims along their shared historical position as radical Others within the hegemonic, Western, Euro-Christian epistemological order
Проблема антисемитизма в глазах евреев и других групп российского городского населения
Translated Title: The issue of anti-semitism as perceived by the Jews and other Russian urban population groups
Date: 2018
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Christian Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Focus Groups, Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism
Abstract: Настоящий отчет в основном описывает результаты качественных исследований 2018 г . Это была вторая волна фокус-групп и интервью, во многом продолжавшая и развивавшая исследование, первая волна которого прошла в 2015 г . и которая описана в соответствующем Отчете . Сведения об объеме и географии проведенных фокус-групп представлены в Приложении №1
Наряду с этим настоящее качественное исследование имеет целью дополнить и поддержать значительное по масштабам количественное исследование, проводимое одновременно Левада-центром в тех же городах (и ряде других) . Описываемые фокус-группы и интервью проводили модераторы Левада-центра А .Левинсон и С .Королева .
Приглашение респондентов из числа евреев осуществлялось через еврейские организации на местах . Контакты с этими организациями были установлены с помощью сотрудников Российского Еврейского Конгресса, за что мы им приносим свою благодарность . Приглашение других респондентов происходило силами местных маркетинговых и социологических агентств, сотрудничающих с Левада-центром .
Выборка для качественного исследования 2018 г . была построена так, чтобы в каждом из четырех городов провести встречи с местным еврейством и с представителями тех групп, которые образуют контекст или часть контекста для существования евреев . Поэтому в городах Дербент и Казань проводились фокус-группы с представителями мусульманского большинства, в городах Томск и Калининград – с представителями русского населения городов .
Исследователи полагали необходимым проверить гипотезу о том, что религиозность, т .е . включенность в жизнь религиозной общины и в соответствующее вероучение, влияет на восприятие проблемы антисемитизма . Поэтому были запланированы фокус-группы с евреями религиозными и с теми, кто себя к религиозным не относит . Такие же различия должны были быть в группах русских (относящие и не относящие себя к православным) и в группах мусульман, которые были разделены на «практикующих» (в Дербенте) и «этнических» (в Казани) . Мы не имели в виду обращаться к «истово-верующим» этих трех конфессий, поскольку это относительно узкие группы среди вообще «верующих»/ «практикующих»/ «религиозных» . Гипотеза нашла лишь частичное подтверждение . Среди евреев этот статус не влиял на их представление о наличии/отсутствии антисемитизма . Среди «практикующих» мусульман и православных было отмечен особый тип претензий к евреям и/или иудеям, не встречавшийся у тех, кто не причисляет себя к верующим . Претензии состояли в том, что иудеи считают себя выше нас – мусульман или православных . В остальном позиции людей более и менее вовлеченных в религию – в отношении обсуждаемых вопросов – не различались .
Nader onderzoek beelden van islamitische jongeren over zionisten en Joden
Translated Title: Further investigation of images of Muslim youth about Zionists and Jews
Author(s): van Wonderen, Ron; Wagenaar, Willem; Stremmelaar, Annemarike
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Youth, Surveys, Antisemitism: Muslim, Anti-Zionism, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: Uit het surveyonderzoek Antisemitisme onder jongeren in Nederland (2015)
bleek dat islamitische jongeren aanzienlijk minder positief denken over
zionisten dan over Joden. En dat zij veel minder positief waren over
zionisten dan andere jongeren. Deze uitkomsten riepen de vraag op welke
ideeën en beelden islamitische jongeren dan hebben ten aanzien van
zionisten, zionisme en Joden. Wat verstaan zij onder die begrippen en welke
verschillen zien zij daar tussen? Het ministerie van Sociale Zaken en
Werkgelegenheid verzocht daarom een kwalitatief vervolgonderzoek om deze
vraag te beantwoorden. In dit rapport vindt u de resultaten.
Les Juifs de France visés par l'Intifada?
Date: 2001
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism: Left-Wing, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish - Muslim Relations
La communauté juive ou la singularité sarcelloise
Author(s): Podselver, Laurence
Date: 1994
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Neighbourhoods, Integration, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: Trente ans après la construction du Grand Ensemble, Sarcelles est souvent présenté comme un lieu de regroupements
«ethniques», de ségrégation, voire de ghettos. La population juive tient, au-delà de toute réalité statistique, un rôle central dans l'image de la ville, à la fois comme modèle d'intégration et paradoxalement comme son contraire.
Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict
Author(s): Mandel, Maud S.
Date: 2014
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Antisemitism: Muslim, Islamophobia, Post-Colonial, Immigration
Abstract: This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society itself even as it was shaped by affairs elsewhere, particularly in North Africa during the era of decolonization.

Mandel examines moments in which conflicts between Muslims and Jews became a matter of concern to French police, the media, and an array of self-appointed spokesmen from both communities: Israel's War of Independence in 1948, France's decolonization of North Africa, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the 1968 student riots, and François Mitterrand's experiments with multiculturalism in the 1980s. She takes an in-depth, on-the-ground look at interethnic relations in Marseille, which is home to the country's largest Muslim and Jewish populations outside of Paris. She reveals how Muslims and Jews in France have related to each other in diverse ways throughout this history--as former residents of French North Africa, as immigrants competing for limited resources, as employers and employees, as victims of racist aggression, as religious minorities in a secularizing state, and as French citizens.

In Muslims and Jews in France, Mandel traces the way these multiple, complex interactions have been overshadowed and obscured by a reductionist narrative of Muslim-Jewish polarization.
Attitudes of Jews in Oxford to other monotheistic religions and interfaith engagement
Author(s): Fidler, Wendy
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Christian Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interviews
Abstract: This study provides an analysis of the attitudes of a minority faith in the UK, the Jews, to interfaith engagement, to the Council of Christians and Jews and other monotheistic religions. It is based on oral testimonies of interviewees who were all members of the Oxford Jewish Congregation, a unique community which has three Jewish groupings of Orthodox, Masorti and Liberal all under one roof. The objectives are to determine the influence of upbringing and life experiences on resultant interfaith attitudes, and link these with the religious denomination of the respondents. Thereafter these attitudes are considered in relation to Israel; to membership of the Council of Christian and Jews; to the attitudes of Jews entering into the sacred space of the ‘Other’ in situations of increasing intensity. Finally this thesis explores attitudes of Jews welcoming non-Jews to attending services in synagogues.

The thesis firstly highlights that the participants’ attitudes towards those of other religions were dependent upon upbringing, background and life experiences, irrespective of whether these resultant attitudes were positive, ambivalent or negative. Secondly, the most significant result found was that all the respondents were involved in dialogue with the Other irrespective of whether they had positive, ambivalent or negative attitudes towards interfaith and despite which Jewish denomination they belonged to. Thirdly, with regard to Israel, each had their own view and opinion which was not dependent on religious affiliation. Fourthly, with regard to the space of the Other, there is more complexity from whether the respondents would enter a church, attend, then participate in an interfaith service held in a church, and finally if they would take part in a service in a church involving a friend or colleague. The responses were divided by the Jewish grouping of the interviewees and demonstrated a new paradigm. There were personal interfaith boundaries beyond which responders would not pass. There was no correlation between background or religious affiliation, revealing an underlying level of unpredictability within the interviewees. Fifthly, this study demonstrated that half of the Orthodox responders were engaged in interfaith activity. Anecdotally, without previous evidence, it has been assumed that Orthodox Jews were less likely to engage in interfaith work. Within this research this was not the case.
Getting away from the noise: Jewish-Muslim interactions and narratives in E1/Barbès
Author(s): Everett, Samuel Sami; Gidley, Ben
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interfaith Relations, Interfaith Dialogue, Cities and Suburbs, Immigration
Abstract: This article offers a comparative lens on intercultural and interreligious encounter in urban contexts in France and the UK, focusing on the commonalities and specificities of different national and municipal contexts. It offers an account of three forms of encounter, based on extensive fieldwork in two neighbourhoods of Paris and London: commercial interdependencies embedded in early phases of immigration; voluntaristic ‘interfaith-from-above’ policies shaped by state agendas developed since the beginning of the twenty-first century; and still emerging ‘interculturalism-from-below’ generated by second- and third-generation children of immigrants, which is marked by nostalgia and selective reading of local heritage. In doing so, it bypasses the sharp disciplinary and methodological divides that separate research on Jewish histories and cultures, Muslim communities, immigrant quarters, and postcolonial/minority ethnic contexts. It aims instead to show how intercultural and interfaith encounters often occur in mundane spaces, and operate through and despite forms of ambivalence, and in this respect offer a context in which to displace the terms of spectacular accounts of racial and civilizational conflict.
Where Do the Hijab and the Kippah Belong? On Being Publicly Jewish or Muslim in Post-Hebdo France
Author(s): Katz, Ethan B.
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Terrorism, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Islamophobia
Abstract: To date, scholars have rarely talked about contemporary antisemitism and Islamophobia in France as part of a single story. When they have, it has typically been as part of a framework for analyzing racism that is essentially competitive: some depict Islamophobia as less a real problem than a frequent excuse to ignore antisemitism; others minimize antisemitism as an unfortunate but marginal phenomenon by comparison with the pervasive nature of anti-Muslim racism in French society. This article argues that the two are inseparable, and it focuses on a hitherto overlooked set of connections: in the era since the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher in January 2015, at key flash points that question Muslim belonging in France, the position of Jews has repeatedly been invoked in ambiguous, contradictory ways. Participants in these public debates have sometimes forcefully maintained that Jews are unlike Muslims, since they have long been fully integrated French citizens. At other moments, these discussions have raised the specter of Jewish ethnic and religious difference. By emphasizing Jewish particularity, such debates evoke, perforce, the past twenty-five years of controversies about the allegedly problematic attire, food, and beliefs of France’s Muslims. The article focuses on several key moments, from the speech of Prime Minister Manuel Valls before the French parliament in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks, to the kippah and burkini affairs of 2016, to the provocative comments of candidates in the 2017 presidential elections concerning Muslim and Jewish religious and ethnic markers of difference.
Talking about Antisemitism in France Before and After Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher
Author(s): Arkin, Kimberly A.
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Terrorism, Jewish Perceptions of Antisemitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Abstract: This article explores tensions in French Jewish discourses about antisemitism in the post-2000 period. Drawing on commentary from French Jewish intellectuals, national Jewish organizations, and the French Jewish press from the mid-2000s until after the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks, I note a complex relationship between change and continuity in discursive characterizations of French antisemitism. While empirical manifestations of antisemitism were notably transformed by the Toulouse attacks of 2012, much French Jewish discourse insisted on continuity from the early 2000s onward. At the same time, Jewish narrative practices shifted rather dramatically. In a political context where Israel was often depicted as part of a history of violent settler colonialism, early 2000s Jewish discourse divorced French antisemitism from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and (post)colonial racism in France. After 2012, some Jewish commentators linked Israel to French antisemitism by likening terrorism in Israel with Islamic antisemitism in France. These disjunctures between narratives and empirical violence suggest that the “structures of feeling” behind Jewish reactions to contemporary antisemitism cannot be reduced to empirical questions about safety and security. Social scientists thus need to move beyond an empirical analysis of antisemitism itself and attend to the cultural and affective work Jewish discourses about antisemitism do in any particular moment.
Europe’s “New Jews”: France, Islamophobia, and Antisemitism in the Era of Mass Migration
Author(s): Bell, Dorian
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islamophobia
Abstract: Are Muslims the “new Jews” of Europe? The spectacle of Middle Eastern and African refugees shuttled by train from camp to squalid camp has understandably drawn parallels to the darkest pages in twentieth-century continental history. Such a historical comparison between Islamophobia and antisemitism, however, risks missing their ongoing interrelation. This article examines that interrelation, arguing that Islamophobia and antisemitism now most resemble each other as complementary mechanisms for diverting the anxieties bred by the global economic order. Antisemitism has long scapegoated the Jews for capitalism’s tendency to produce outsized winners. But there has been no comparably global shorthand for the anxiety prompted by capitalism’s losers—until now. Muslim refugees help give a name, Islam, to the masses seemingly encroaching from the margins of the world system. The result, I argue, is the hardening of Islamophobia and antisemitism into the inextricable poles of a reactionary worldview. Taking France as a case study, the article reads the burkini bans prompted by the July 2016 terror attack in Nice as an expression of middle-class fear about downward mobility. Targeted at both internal Muslim leisure and external Muslim encroachment, the bans evoke how European unease about globalization increasingly takes Islamophobic form. Such intolerance threatens not only to lodge Islamophobia at the heart of a reconstituted Europe but also to erode the vigilance against antisemitism once characteristic of the postwar European project.
Introduction: Judeophobia and Islamophobia in France Before and After Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher
Author(s): Judaken, Jonathan
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Social Media, Internet, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islamophobia, Terrorism
Abstract: This article opens with an assessment of the narratives that emerged in the immediate wake of the Charlie Hebdo / Hyper Cacher events in January 2015. It does so by examining the differing hashtags of the moment—#jesuisCharlie, #jesuisjuif, #LassBat—and how each offered a distilled account of what the moment meant; these competing interpretations were echoed in the news coverage and the commentary that followed. The article proceeds to set out how this special issue reframes and reevaluates the recent history of relations between Jews and Muslims in France. Each author suggests that Judeophobia and Islamophobia are inextricably entangled in ways more complicated than simple formulas or hashtags can encapsulate. Taking on the suggestion that “Muslims are the new Jews” in France (or in Europe), the special issue instead urges an appreciation of the interlocked vulnerabilities and insecurities of both Jews and Muslims. Such an approach requires a recognition of the structural and institutional forces and ideologies that have shaped their interconnected destinies in the last generation.
The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew': Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society
Editor(s): Gans, Evelien; Ensel, Remco
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Commemoration
Abstract: This book is the first comprehensive study of postwar antisemitism in the Netherlands. It focuses on the way stereotypes are passed on from one decade to the next, as reflected in public debates, the mass media, protests and commemorations, and everyday interactions. The Holocaust, Israel and 'the Jew' explores the ways in which old stories and phrases relating to 'the stereotypical Jew' are recycled and modified for new uses, linking the antisemitism of the early postwar years to its enduring manifestations in today's world.

The Dutch case is interesting because of the apparent contrast between the Netherlands' famous tradition of tolerance and the large numbers of Jews who were deported and murdered in the Second World War. The book sheds light on the dark side of this so-called 'Dutch paradox,' in manifestations of aversion and guilt after 1945. In this context, the abusive taunt 'They forgot to gas you' can be seen as the first radical expression of postwar antisemitism as well as an indication of how the Holocaust came to be turned against the Jews. The identification of 'the Jew' with the gas chamber spread from the streets to football stadiums, and from verbal abuse to pamphlet and protest. The slogan 'Hamas, Hamas all the Jews to the gas' indicates that Israel became a second marker of postwar antisemitism.

The chapters cover themes including soccer-related antisemitism, Jewish responses, philosemitism, antisemitism in Dutch-Moroccan and Dutch- Turkish communities, contentious acts of remembrance, the neo-Nazi tradition, and the legacy of Theo van Gogh. The book concludes with a lengthy epilogue on 'the Jew' in the politics of the radical right, the attacks in Paris in 2015, and the refugee crisis. The stereotype of 'the Jew' appears to be transferable to other minorities.

Contents:

Preface

1 Why Jews are more guilty than others : An introductory essay, 1945-2016
Evelien Gans
Part I Post-Liberation Antisemitism
2 ‘The Jew’ as Dubious Victim
Evelien Gans
3 The Meek Jew – and Beyond
Evelien Gans
4 Alte Kameraden: Right-wing Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial
Remco Ensel, Evelien Gans and Willem Wagenaar
5 Jewish Responses to Post-Liberation Antisemitism
Evelien Gans
Part II Israel and ‘the Jew’
6 Philosemitism? Ambivalences regarding Israel
Evelien Gans
7 Transnational Left-wing Protest and the ‘Powerful Zionist’
Remco Ensel
8 Israel: Source of Divergence
Evelien Gans
9 ‘The Activist Jew’ Responds to Changing Dutch Perceptions of Israel
Katie Digan
10 Turkish Anti-Zionism in the Netherlands: From Leftist to Islamist Activism
Annemarike Stremmelaar
Part III The Holocaust-ed Jew in Native Dutch Domains
since the 1980s
11 ‘The Jew’ in Football: To Kick Around or to Embrace
Evelien Gans
12 Pornographic Antisemitism, Shoah Fatigue and Freedom of Speech
Evelien Gans
13 Historikerstreit: The Stereotypical Jew in Recent Dutch Holocaust Studies
Remco Ensel and Evelien Gans
Part IV Generations. Migrant Identities and Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century
14 ‘The Jew’ vs. ‘the Young Male Moroccan’: Stereotypical Confrontations in the City
Remco Ensel
15 Conspiracism: Islamic Redemptive Antisemitism and the Murder of Theo van Gogh
Remco Ensel
16 Reading Anne Frank: Confronting Antisemitism in Turkish Communities
Annemarike Stremmelaar
17 Holocaust Commemorations in Postcolonial Dutch Society
Remco Ensel
18 Epilogue: Instrumentalising and Blaming ‘the Jew’, 2011-2016
Evelien Gans
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the Netherlands: concepts, developments, and backdrops
Author(s): Vellenga, Sipco
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Monitoring, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islamophobia
Abstract: In recent years, the Netherlands has been frequently confronted with public incidents of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. After defining the complex concepts of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, presenting the theoretical approach to these phenomena, and sketching the societal context in which they are embedded, this article describes the development of the numbers of reported expressions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the Netherlands since the turn of the century. It notes that the general level of annual numbers of recorded incidents of the phenomena has increased since 2000 and, at the same time, there are significant fluctuations in the numbers of notified incidents per year. These fluctuations correlate to outbursts of violence in the Middle East and to acts of violence committed in the name of Islam in the West, while the general higher level of incidents of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia relates to numerous and various threats experienced in the context of the Dutch multi-ethnic society, changes in national identity, and trends in globalisation.
Ethnoreligious Politics in France: Jews and Muslims
Author(s): Safran, William
Date: 2004
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Multiculturalism, Politics, Religion and State
Abstract: This article focuses on the relationship between the two major ethnoreligious communities – the Jews and the Muslims – and the state in France, as reflected in lobbying, electoral behaviour, and public policies. It shows how the evolution of that relationship, an aspect of the politics of ethnicity, religion and multiculturalism, has been both a cause and a consequence of modifications in approaches to secularism, communitarianism and affirmative action. Finally, it deals with the question to what extent this development corresponds to a pluralist or corporatist model of politics and argues that changes in the relationship between state and society suggest an evolving accommodationist pattern increasingly similar to that of the United States.
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Spectropolitics and Immigration
Author(s): Romyne, Esther
Date: 2014
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Memory, Islamophobia, Multiculturalism, Racism, Immigration, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Tolerance
Abstract: In the context of the Dutch immigration debate, tributes to the Holocaust and the memory of Europe’s dead Jews increasingly serve to dismantle multiculturalism as a failed paradigm and to drive a wedge between a revitalized, redeemed, color-blind, post-racial Europe and disenfranchized immigrant, minority and Muslim populations. Embedded in these invocations of the Holocaust and its moral imperatives is a ‘spectropolitics’ of tolerance, in which tolerance, staged as an essential touchstone of Dutch identity, supplies a differential norm that measures the civilizational and racial disjuncture between Europeans, minorities, and Muslims, and validates the new dual paradigm of Dutch citizenship and immigration policy: securitization and disciplinary integration. The centrality of the Holocaust as paradigmatic of Dutch and European racial history meanwhile sidelines the colonial past as constitutive of European identity; displaces an alternative understanding of race as (bio- and necro-political) instruments of colonial rule; and disavows the continued application of these instruments of racial rule in Dutch and European post-colonial societies.
Anti-semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds old and new in Europe
Author(s): Bunzl, Matti
Date: 2007
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Comparisons with other communities, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: The apparent resurgence of hostility toward Jews has been a prominent theme in recent discussions of Europe; at the same time, the adversities faced by the continent’s Muslim population have received increasing attention. In Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe, Matti Bunzl offers a historical and cultural clarification of the key terms in this debate. Arguing against the common impulse to analogize anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, it instead offers a framework that locates the two phenomena in different projects of exclusion.

According to Bunzl, anti-Semitism was invented in the late nineteenth century to police the ethnically pure nation-state. Islamophobia, by contrast, is a phenomenon of the present, marshaled to safeguard a supranational Europe. With the declining importance of the nation-state, traditional anti-Semitism has run its historical course, while Islamophobia threatens to become the defining condition of the new, unified Europe. By ridding us of misapprehensions, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia enables us to see these forces anew.
Good Jew, bad Jew … good Muslim, bad Muslim: “managing” Europe’s others
Author(s): Topolski, Anya
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Representation, Comparisons with other communities
Abstract: In this contribution, I examine the Catholic political practice of “intercessions” (shtadlanut) as a means to control and manage relations between state power and Jewish communities by means of a privileged elite. While governmental techniques or mechanisms of minority management are only part of a broader question of majority–minority power relations, the theological-political roots of such “management” strategies are often overlooked because the problem is assumed to be secular. In my analysis of shtadlanut, I show how Jewish communities were internally divided between “good” and “bad”, “managed” by the ruling powers, and homogenized. It is precisely this type of enforced collaboration with power, in combination with reduced agency and de-politicization, that I claim goes beyond the “Jewish Question”. Rather, we must turn our gaze on Europe and consider how, and why, it continues to make 'others' into problems. By doing so, we can challenge the frame of the contemporary "Muslim Question".
Religion, regulation, consumption: Globalising kosher and halal markets
Author(s): Lever, John; Fischer, Johan
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Kashrut, Globalisation, Comparisons with other communities, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Economy, Jewish Organisations, Religion and State, Finance
Abstract: This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning 'fit' or 'proper' while halal is an Arabic word that literally means 'permissible' or 'lawful'. This is the first book to explore kosher and halal comparatively at different levels of the social scale such as individual consumption, the marketplace, religious organisations and the state. Kosher and halal markets have become global in scope and states, manufacturers, restaurants, shops, certifiers and consumers around the world are faced with ever stricter and more complex kosher and halal requirements. The research question in this book is: What are the consequences of globalising kosher and halal markets?
Wie sich türkische Einwanderer an den Juden in Deutschland orientieren
Translated Title: How Turkish immigrants orient themselves to the Jews in Germany
Author(s): Bodemann, Y. Michal; Yurdakul, Gökce
Date: 2005
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Attitudes to Jews
Mapping Dialogue Between Jewish and Muslim Communities in Europe
Author(s): Friedman, Ruth
Date: 2008
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Dialogue
Abstract: In 2005, CEJI – a Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe – began an initiative to promote dialogue and understanding between Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe, and to enhance the visibility of already existing dialogue projects. The endeavour began with a series of national reports, was marked by a European conference of seventy people in April 2007, and culminated in the establishment of a European Platform for Jewish Muslim Co-operation.
Muslim-Jewish Relations in France through the Lens of Recent Cinema
Author(s): Stillman, Dinah Assouline
Editor(s): Meri, Josef
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Antisemitism: Muslim, Film, Jewish Film
Abstract: Until the early 1990s, the close cohabitation in France of Jews and Muslims from formerly colonized North Africa was generally peaceful. During the first half of the twentieth century, most of the newcomers fulfilled the Republican vision of assimilation. However, events in the Middle East in the latter part of the twentieth century and early years of the twenty-first, and in particular the First and Second Intifada, together with the introduction of Arab satellite television, caused a sea-change in inter-ethnic relations. Angry Muslim youths, frustrated also by widespread discrimination in the broader French society and workplace, directed violence both toward the authorities and the establishment and particularly against Jews whom they accuse as being Zionists. For their part, the Jews of the banlieues (suburbs) and inner cities have felt increasingly insecure and have been progressively moving to “safer” bourgeois or gentile neighborhoods or to Israel. These new realities have been the subject of a considerable number of French movies by Jewish and Muslim directors (and in one instance the son of a pied noir family) and film writers. Some of these films merely attempt to record the situation, whereas others aim at fostering improved relationships. This article chronicles these cinematic efforts and analyzes their varying approaches to Jewish-Muslim relations in France.
Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? The case of Germany
Author(s): Berek, Mathias
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: There is a persistent claim that new migrants to Europe, and specifically migrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA migrants), carry antisemitism with them. This assertion is made to different degrees in different countries and can take different forms. Nevertheless, in Europe, the association of rising antisemitism with migrants from the Middle East and North Africa
is widespread and needs to be evaluated.

MENA migrants have been symbolically central to the migration debate since 2011. These years have been framed by the Arab spring and its aftermath and by Europe’s crisis of refugee protection. This research project has focused specifically on MENA migrants, in response to the intensity of this debate, and in accordance with the brief from Foundation EVZ. The central concern of the research project has been to investigate whether the arrival of MENA migrants since 2011 has had an impact on antisemitic attitudes and behaviour in Western Europe. This report deals with the case of Belgium. The report also considers whether government and civil society agencies have identified a problem of antisemitism among MENA migrants. The findings are based on an extensive survey of existing quantitative and qualitative evidence. Additionally, new qualitative research has been undertaken to investigate the experiences and opinions of a range of actors.

This national report contributes to a larger research project conducted in 2016/2017 across five European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. A final report, Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today: is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study, draws out common trends, makes comparisons and provides recommendations for civil society organizations and for governments.
Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? The case of the United Kingdom
Author(s): Feldman, David; Gidley, Ben
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: There is a persistent claim that new migrants to Europe, and specifically migrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA migrants), carry antisemitism with them. This assertion is made to different degrees in different countries and can take different forms. Nevertheless, in Europe, the association of rising antisemitism with migrants from the Middle East and North Africa is widespread and needs to be evaluated.

MENA migrants have been symbolically central to the migration debate since 2011. These years have been framed by the Arab spring and its aftermath and by Europe’s crisis of refugee protection. This research project has focused specifically on MENA migrants, in response to the intensity of this debate, and in accordance with the brief from Foundation EVZ. The central concern of the research project has been to investigate whether the arrival of MENA migrants since 2011 has had an impact on antisemitic attitudes and behaviour in Western Europe. This report deals with the case of the United Kingdom. The report also considers whether government and civil society agencies have identified a problem of antisemitism among MENA migrants. The findings are based on an extensive survey of existing quantitative and qualitative evidence. Additionally, new qualitative research has been undertaken to investigate the experiences and opinions of a range of actors.

This national report contributes to a larger research project conducted in 2016/2017 across five European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. A final report, Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today: is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study, draws out common trends, makes comparisons and provides recommendations for civil society organizations and for governments.
Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? The case of The Netherlands
Author(s): Stremmelaar, Annemarike; Lucassen, Leo
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: There is a persistent claim that new migrants to Europe, and specifically migrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA migrants), carry antisemitism with them. This assertion is made to different degrees in different countries and can take different forms. Nevertheless, in Europe, the association of rising antisemitism with migrants from the Middle East and North Africa is widespread and needs to be evaluated.

MENA migrants have been symbolically central to the migration debate since 2011. These years have been framed by the Arab spring and its aftermath and by Europe’s crisis of refugee protection. This research project has focused specifically on MENA migrants, in response to the intensity of this debate, and in accordance with the brief from Foundation EVZ. The central concern of the research project has been to investigate whether the arrival of MENA migrants since 2011 has had an impact on antisemitic attitudes and behaviour in Western Europe. This report deals with the case of the Netherlands. The report also considers whether government and civil society agencies have identified a problem of antisemitism among MENA migrants. The findings are based on an extensive survey of existing quantitative and qualitative evidence. Additionally, new qualitative research has been undertaken to investigate the experiences and opinions of a range of actors.

This national report contributes to a larger research project conducted in 2016/2017 across five European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. A final report, Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today: is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study, draws out common trends, makes comparisons and provides recommendations for civil society organizations and for governments.
Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? The case of France
Author(s): Druez, Elodie; Mayer, Nonna
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: There is a persistent claim that new migrants to Europe, and specifically migrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA migrants), carry antisemitism with them. This assertion is made to different degrees in different countries and can take different forms. Nevertheless, in Europe, the association of rising antisemitism with migrants from the Middle East and North Africa
is widespread and needs to be evaluated.

MENA migrants have been symbolically central to the migration debate since 2011. These years have been framed by the Arab spring and its aftermath and by Europe’s crisis of refugee protection. This research project has focused specifically on MENA migrants, in response to the intensity of this debate, and in accordance with the brief from Foundation EVZ. The central concern of the research project has been to investigate whether the arrival of MENA migrants since 2011 has had an impact on antisemitic attitudes and behaviour in Western Europe. This report deals with the case of France. The report also considers whether government and civil society agencies have identified a problem of antisemitism among MENA migrants. The findings are based on an extensive survey of existing quantitative and qualitative evidence. Additionally, new qualitative research has been undertaken to investigate the experiences and opinions of a range of actors.

This national report contributes to a larger research project conducted in 2016/2017 across five European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. A final report, Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today: is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study, draws out common trends, makes comparisons and provides recommendations for civil society organizations and for governments.
Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? The case of Belgium
Author(s): Sacco, Muriel; Martiniello, Marco
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Antisemitism, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: There is a persistent claim that new migrants to Europe, and specifically migrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA migrants), carry antisemitism with them. This assertion is made to different degrees in different countries and can take different forms. Nevertheless, in Europe, the association of rising antisemitism with migrants from the Middle East and North Africa
is widespread and needs to be evaluated.

MENA migrants have been symbolically central to the migration debate since 2011. These years have been framed by the Arab spring and its aftermath and by Europe’s crisis of refugee protection. This research project has focused specifically on MENA migrants, in response to the intensity of this debate, and in accordance with the brief from Foundation EVZ. The central concern of the research project has been to investigate whether the arrival of MENA migrants since 2011 has had an impact on antisemitic attitudes and behaviour in Western Europe. This report deals with the case of Belgium. The report also considers whether government and civil society agencies have identified a problem of antisemitism among MENA migrants. The findings are based on an extensive survey of existing quantitative and qualitative evidence. Additionally, new qualitative research has been undertaken to investigate the experiences and opinions of a range of actors.

This national report contributes to a larger research project conducted in 2016/2017 across five European countries – Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. A final report, Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today: is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study, draws out common trends, makes comparisons and provides recommendations for civil society organizations and for governments.
Antisemitisme en Immigratie in het Hedendaagse West-Europa Is er een verband? Bevindingen en aanbevelingen uit een onderzoek in vijf landen
Translated Title: Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study
Author(s): Feldman, David
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islam, Islamic Fundamentalism
Abstract: De centrale kwestie van het onderzoeksproject was onderzoeken of immigratie uit het Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika sinds 2011 een invloed heeft gehad op antisemitische attitudes en gedragingen in West-Europa.

Dit korte rapport is het resultaat van het samenvoegen van vijf afzonderlijke nationale rapporten (over België, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Nederland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk) en presenteert de bevindingen en aanbevelingen die uit het project als geheel naar voren zijn gekomen.

Het rapport:
• Onderzoekt recente migratie uit MENA-landen naar West-Europa
• Presenteert een overzicht van de omvang en bronnen van antisemitisme in het huidige West-Europa
• Geeft een beoordeling van de houdingen van MENA-migranten en de angsten die ze soms oproepen
• Onderzoekt de geldigheid van beweringen dat het groeiende aantal MENA-migranten in West-Europa antisemitisme bevordert
• Doet aanbevelingen voor actie door overheden en maatschappelijke organisaties en wijst op gebieden waar meer onderzoek vereist is om onze kennis en ons begrip te vergroten.
Antisemitismus und Immigration im heutigen Westeuropa Gibt es einen Zusammenhang? Ergebnisse und Empfehlungen einer Studie aus fünf Ländern
Translated Title: Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study
Author(s): Feldman, David
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islam, Islamic Fundamentalism
Abstract: Das zentrale Anliegen dieses Forschungsprojektes war es, zu ermitteln, ob sich die Immigration aus der Region Nahost und Nordafrika seit 2011 auf antisemitische Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen in Westeuropa auswirkt. Dieser kurze Bericht stellt eine Zusammenführung fünf einzelner nationaler Berichte (zu Belgien, Frankreich, Deutschland, den Niederlanden und dem Vereinigten Königreich) dar und präsentiert die Ergebnisse und Empfehlungen, die sich aus dem Projekt als Ganzes ergeben.

Der Bericht:
• untersucht die aktuelle Zuwanderung aus Ländern der MENA-Region nach Westeuropa
• bietet einen Überblick über das Ausmaß und die Quellen des Antisemitismus im heutigen Westeuropa
• bietet eine Einschätzung der Einstellungen von MENA-Migranten sowie der Ängste, die sie teilweise hervorrufen
• untersucht die Berechtigung von Behauptungen, dass die wachsende Zahl an MENA-Migranten in Westeuropa den Antisemitismus fördert
• enthält Handlungsempfehlungen für Regierungen und zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und hebt Bereiche hervor, in denen weitere Untersuchungen erforderlich sind, um unser Wissen und Verständnis zu erweitern.
Existe-t-il un lien entre antisémitisme et immigration en Europe de l’Ouest aujourd’hui ? Une étude sur cinq pays Conclusions et recommandations
Translated Title: Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study
Author(s): Feldman, David
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islam, Islamic Fundamentalism
Abstract: L’enjeu central du projet était de comprendre si l’immigration en provenance du Moyen-Orient et d’Afrique du Nord depuis 2011 a une incidence sur les attitudes et les comportements antisémites en Europe occidentale.

Ce bref rapport est une synthèse de cinq rapports nationaux distincts (sur la Belgique, la France, l’Allemagne, les Pays-Bas et le Royaume-Uni) et présente des observations et recommandations ressortant de l’ensemble du projet.

Le rapport:
• Passe en revue les flux migratoires récents des pays MENA vers l’Europe de l’Ouest
• Fournit une vue générale de l’ampleur et des sources de l’antisémitisme en Europe de l’Ouest aujourd’hui
• Examine les attitudes des migrants MENA, ainsi que les peurs qu’ils peuvent parfois susciter
• Examine la validité de l’idée de plus en plus souvent exprimée selonlaquelle l’afflux croissant de migrants des pays MENA en Europe de l’Ouest entraînerait un regain d’antisémitisme
• Formule des recommandations d’action à l’intention des gouvernements et des organisations de la société civile, et pointe les domaines dans lesquels il faut approfondir les recherches pour produire des connaissances et mieux comprendre les mécanismes à l’œuvre.
Antisemitism and Immigration in Western Europe Today. Is there a connection? Findings and recommendations from a five-nation study
Author(s): Feldman, David
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Islam, Islamic Fundamentalism
Abstract: The central concern of the research project has been to investigate whether immigration from the Middle East and North Africa since 2011 has had an impact on antisemitic attitudes and behaviour in Western Europe.

This short report is a distillation of five separate national reports (on Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and United Kingdom) and presents the findings and recommendations that emerge from the project as a whole.

The report:
• Surveys recent migration from MENA countries to Western Europe
• Presents an overview of the extent and sources of antisemitism in Western Europe today
• Provides an assessment of the attitudes of MENA migrants, as well as of the fears they sometimes elicit
• Examines the validity of claims that the growing number of MENA migrants in Western Europe promotes antisemitism
• Makes recommendations for action by governments and civil society organizations and highlights areas in which we need more research to extend our knowledge and understanding.
Cooperation in Turbulent Times: Strategies of Jews and Muslims in Amsterdam
Author(s): Roggeveen, Suzanna; Vellenga, Sipco J.; Wiegers, Gerard A.
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Antisemitism: Muslim, Interfaith Dialogue, Islamophobia
Abstract: Relations between Jews and Muslims in Amsterdam grew tense after the conflicts between Gaza and Israel in 2014, the violent attacks on Jewish targets in Brussels (2014), Paris (2015) and Copenhagen (2015) and local incidents of online, verbal and sometimes physical discrimination. Nevertheless, these factors also inspired Jews and Muslims to launch cooperation projects and strengthen the bonds already existing between them. Cooperation in turbulent times is not always easy. The data collected for this research show how Jews and Muslims in cooperation projects use to strategies to solve some of the problems confronting them. The three most widely used strategies that were found are ‘searching for similarities’, ‘decategorizing’ and ‘avoidance’. These strategies do not emerge in a vacuum, however, but at a certain moment in time, in specific fields. Therefore, this article, will describe the usage of the three strategies and explain the interaction between strategies and their contexts.
Caucasus Jews and their Neighbors: Social Network in a Multi-Ethnic Society
Author(s): Bram, Chen
Editor(s): Özgür, Ergün
Date: 2009
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Diaspora, Mountain Jews, Language, Networks, Jewish Identity, National Identity, Ethnicity, Ethnography, Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Being a Jew of Muslim Descent, a Problematic Identity
Author(s): Allouche-Benayoun, Joëlle
Editor(s): Gross, Martine; Nizard, Sophie; Scioldo-Zurcher, Yann
Date: 2017
Topics: Jewish Identity, Conversion, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interviews
Abstract: Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun investigates the “problematic identity” of Muslims having converted to Judaism in France. In her article, the cases of conversion are based on two sorts of sources: testimony in the digital Jewish press (the internet), studying conversion files, and interviews carried out with Muslim men and women who converted or are in the process of converting to Judaism.

In the presently taut context of Judeo-Muslim relations, converted men and women stand by their choice in the name of what they call their “ideological proximity” to Judaism – or to Jews – but they also express their rejection of, or their intention to keep away from, “Islamic excesses”.
France : Les Juifs Vus Par Les Musulmans. Entre Stéréotypes Et Méconnaissances
Author(s): Ghouirgate, Mehdi; Roder, Iannis; Schnapper, Dominique
Date: 2017
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Muslim, Interviews, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: En France, la résurgence de l’antisémitisme est une évidence. Pourtant un trop grand nombre de personnes continuent de ne pas voir cette réalité. Le retour, ou la réaffirmation des préjugés haineux en général et de l’antisémitisme en particulier est l’une des manifestations les plus saillantes de la crise que traversent nos démocraties. Obsession à la fois caractéristique et constitutive de l’extrême droite, l’antisémitisme ne s’y limite pas cependant. Les chemins de l’antisémitisme sont pluriels. Les années 2000 ont été marquées par l’affirmation d’un « nouvel antisémitisme », au sein d’une partie de la communauté immigrée et de culture musulmane.
L’observation, la mesure et l’étude de ces préjugés sont donc redevenus nécessaires. Le but de cette étude est de comprendre comment celui qui se dit musulman ou de culture musulmane construit sa perception des juifs. Il nous est apparu nécessaire d’étudier, à travers une série d’entretiens qualitatifs réalisés par l’IFOP, les systèmes de représentation qui mènent ou, pour le moins, qui se combinent à l’expression de préjugés antisémites.
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France
Author(s): Katz, Ethan B.
Date: 2015
Topics: Jewish-Muslim Relations, Antisemitism: Muslim, Israeli-Arab Conflict, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Headlines from France suggest that Muslims have renewed an age-old struggle against Jews and that the two groups are once more inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different story. The Burdens of Brotherhood is a sweeping history of Jews and Muslims in France from World War I to the present. Here Ethan Katz introduces a richer and more complex world that offers fresh perspective for understanding the opportunities and challenges in France today.

Focusing on the experiences of ordinary people, Katz shows how Jewish–Muslim relations were shaped by everyday encounters and by perceptions of deeply rooted collective similarities or differences. We meet Jews and Muslims advocating common and divergent political visions, enjoying common culinary and musical traditions, and interacting on more intimate terms as neighbors, friends, enemies, and even lovers and family members. Drawing upon dozens of archives, newspapers, and interviews, Katz tackles controversial subjects like Muslim collaboration and resistance during World War II and the Holocaust, Jewish participation in French colonialism, the international impact of the Israeli–Arab conflict, and contemporary Muslim antisemitism in France.

We see how Jews and Muslims, as ethno-religious minorities, understood and related to one another through their respective relationships to the French state and society. Through their eyes, we see colonial France as a multiethnic, multireligious society more open to public displays of difference than its postcolonial successor. This book thus dramatically reconceives the meaning and history not only of Jewish–Muslim relations but ultimately of modern France itself.
Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities. Sources, Comparisons and Educational Challenges
Editor(s): Jikeli, Günther; Allouche-Benayoun, Joëlle
Date: 2013
Topics: Antisemitism, Antisemitism monitoring, Anti-Zionism, Muslim antisemitism, Holocaust Education, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Denial, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: The way people think about the Holocaust is changing. The particular nature of the transformation depends on people’s historical perspectives and how they position themselves and their nation or community vis-à-vis the tragedy. Understandably, European Muslims perceive the Holocaust as less central to their history than do other Europeans. Yet while the acknowledgement and commemoration of the horrors of the Holocaust are increasingly important in Europe, Holocaust denial and biased views on the Holocaust are widespread in European Muslims’ countries of origin.
In this book, a number of distinguished scholars and educators of various backgrounds discuss views of the Holocaust. Problematic views are often influenced by a persistent attitude of Holocaust denial which is derived, in part, from discourses in the Muslim communities in their countries of origin. The essays collected here explore the backgrounds of these perceptions and highlight positive approaches and developments. Many of the contributions were written by people working in the field and reflecting on their experiences. This collection also reveals that problematic views of the Holocaust are not limited to Muslim communities.
Reaching In, Reaching Out Faith schools, community engagement, and 21st-century skills for intercultural understanding
Author(s): Parker-Jenkins, Marie; Glen, Meli; Janmaat, Jan Germen
Date: 2014
Topics: Jewish Schools, Jewish Education, Multiculturalism, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Education
Abstract: In what ways do Jewish and Muslim faith schools in Britain play a role in promoting and contributing to community cohesion? What 21st-century skills around intercultural understanding do they foster?
This book examines the nuances of faith in school settings and draws on a case study of Jewish and Muslim faith schools. The authors show how these institutions play a role in sustaining their own religious heritage while also engaging with, and providing a place of safety from, the wider community. It sets this case study approach within an historical perspective on faith schools and their relationship with the state in the UK and Europe, and gives an overview of key debates on faith schools. Finally, it examines practical curricula suggestions that all schools can adopt to develop skills around tolerance and engagement to prepare students to live and lead in a diverse 21st century. The book conveys:

• the experiences of some Jewish and Muslim schools within England gathered from one-to-one interviews with teachers, parents, and community representatives, and from focus groups with children;
• a more detailed understanding of Jewish and Muslim concepts of community;
• perceptions of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia;
• alternatives for preparing children with the skills and knowledge needed in the 21st century; and
• the implications for policy and practice in faith schools and those not characterized by a religious ethos or affiliation.

This publication is for school leaders, teachers, teacher trainers, students, and parents. It will also interest government and non-government bodies relating to race relations and education

- See more at: https://www.ucl-ioe-press.com/books/faith-in-education/reaching-in-reaching-out/#sthash.l7da6c8n.dpuf
Grands ensembles et singularités communautaires: Culture juive, présence musulmane à sarcelles
Author(s): Benveniste, Annie
Date: 2004
Topics: Jewish neighbourhoods, North African Jewry, Cities and Suburbs, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: La dispersion de la ville contemporaine multiplie les interstices pour des réinvestissements religieux inédits. Dans le grand ensemble de Sarcelles en région parisienne, la communauté juive a développé des formes d'expression syncrétiques tout en accueillant en son sein des différences profondes entre groupes de la diaspora. Ces lignes de tensions internes et externes reproduisent et dépassent les clivages sociaux et les assignations spatiales.
“We Don’t Want to Be the Jews of Tomorrow”: Jews and Turks in Germany after 9/11
Author(s): Yurdakul, Gökçe
Date: 2006
Topics: Jewish-Muslim Relations, Multiculturalism, Islamophobia, Racism, Antisemitism, Immigration, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: This article examines how German Turks employ the German Jewish trope to establish an analogous discourse for their own position in German society. Drawing on the literature on immigrant incorporation, we argue that immigrants take more established minority groups as a model in their incorporation process. Here, we examine how German Turks formulate and enact their own incorporation into German society. They do that, we argue, by employing the master narrative and socio-cultural repertoire of Germany's principal minority, German Jewry. This is accomplished especially in relation to racism and antisemitism, as an organizational model and as a political model in terms of making claims against the German state. We argue that in order to understand immigrant incorporation, it is not sufficient to look at state-immigrant relations only—authors also need to look at immigrant groups' relationships with other minority groups.
The Paradox of the Italian Jewish Experience in 1990-2010
Author(s): Nissan, Ephraim
Date: 2011
Topics: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Discrimination, Jewish-Christian Relations, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: There is a paradox to the Italian Jewish experience in the 2000s. Jews are more integrated than ever since 1945, While the Jews are indeed more accepted than ever, sporadic expressions of direct, incontrovertible anti-Semitism have occurred even in the circles of power, and even at the highest levels. For all the persistence, and sometimes transmogrification, of hostile attitudes toward Jews and Israel from some quarters, there is often sympathy from persons from different walks of life. And since the end of the First Republic in the early 1990s, also some of Italy's politicians allow themselves to express sympathy for Israel.
If It Smells Muslim: Lemon Cologne, Hebrew Lessons and Turkish Identity
Author(s): Brink-Danan, Marcy
Date: 2012
Topics: Diaspora, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Ethnography, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: The author uses the prevalent lemon cologne scent ubiquitous in Turkey to demonstrate the complicated identity associations between being Turkish, Muslim, and Jewish.
The Slow Disappearance of Turkey's Jewish Community
Author(s): Bali, Rifat
Date: 2011
Topics: Aliyah, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Community Relations, Diaspora, Immigration, International Relations, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Migration, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Future
Abstract: Turkey's Jewish community is one of the few remaining Diaspora Jewish communities in a country with a Muslim majority. Despite its apparent dynamism, its long-term viability is doubtful. The community does not have any influence or play any role worth mentioning in Turkey's cultural, political, or intellectual life. Furthermore, in recent years the entire community has become the target of much resentment and hostile rhetoric from the country's Islamist and ultranationalist sectors. For the situation to change, Turkish society would have to veer away from the current insular nationalist and Islamist atmosphere and move in a more liberal, democratic, multicultural direction. Turkey could then both come to grips with the darker aspects of its past and work for a different and better future. At present, the indications that such a transition might occur are mixed at best.
Insights into the Situation of the Jews in the Netherlands
Author(s): Markens, Henri
Date: 2009
Topics: Demography, Antisemitism, Muslim antisemitism, Restitution, Integration, Jewish Schools, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: Demographic research by the Jewish social organization JMW shows that three-quarters of the Dutch Jewish community, which numbers about 30,000, is not organized in one of the three religious organizations-the Ashkenazi, Progressive, and Portuguese. Among other things, this means they do not send their children to a Jewish school and, if they are ill, do not go to the Jewish hospital. Close to half of the Jews live in Amsterdam and the adjacent southern suburb of Amstelveen.
The immigration of Muslims and the rise of Islam in the Netherlands have created problems for the Jewish community and will continue to do so. There are about one million Muslims in the Netherlands. Their influence on the political system is increasing. This cannot be positive for the Jews. The more power the Muslim community gains, the more it will weaken the Jewish community’s relations with a number of ministries.
The Jewish community faces increasing anti-Semitism. This has led to enhanced security measures. It also threatens to intensify attitudes based on fear.
An important element in Dutch Jewish history over the past decade was the restitution negotiations. As a result, the Dutch government made a payment of 400 million guilders (180 million Euros) to the Dutch community. Banks, insurance companies, and the stock exchange made additional payments that totaled 340 million guilders (155 million Euros).
Jewish-Muslim Relations in Sweden
Author(s): Tossavainen, Mikael
Date: 2009
Topics: Community Relations, Islam, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Security, Tolerance, Interfaith Dialogue, Muslim antisemitism, Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Relations
Abstract:

The author discusses the Jewish and Muslim populations of Sweden, outlines venues and efforts for interfaith dialogue between the two groups, identifies issues of mutual interest (including promoting tolerance for ritual slaughter and circumcision), identifies issues of conflict, and notes instances of attacks on Jews.
Muslims and Jews in Switzerland
Author(s): Erlanger, Simon
Date: 2008
Topics: Muslim antisemitism, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The Muslim population in Switzerland has increased rapidly from 16,353 in 1970 to an estimated 400,000 persons today, while the general population grew from around six million to 7.6 million. The Jewish community today is some 18,000 strong, a number that has not changed since the 1950s. Whereas the Jewish community, given its small size and its age profile, is likely to shrink and lose influence, the Muslim community can be expected to become more influential. Already up to eight percent of the population in the large cities is Muslim. Muslims in Switzerland are younger and less well educated than the average, whereas the Jewish community is older than average and the best-educated group in the country.
The Muslim community in Switzerland is marked by extreme religious and ethnic diversity and hence, also, by a variety of attitudes toward Jews and Israel. There has so far been no openly anti-Jewish mass movement among Muslims with multiple hate crimes committed such as in France. Kurds, Turks, and Bosnians tend to be more secular and friendlier toward Jews than Arabs from North Africa and the Middle East.
There has been some cooperation between the Jewish and Muslim communities with the former even providing support to the latter. Certain Muslim groups want to learn from the established Jewish community how to gain legal, political, and social acceptance in Switzerland.
Muslims have not been the driving force behind the Swiss version of the new Europe-wide anti-Semitism. However, there is a growing radicalization of disaffected Muslim youth, with Islamism gaining ground among certain groups.
Muslim-Jewish Interactions in Great Britain
Author(s): Whine, Michael
Date: 2008
Topics: Jewish-Muslim Relations, Muslim antisemitism, Interfaith Dialogue, Interfaith Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: There are an estimated two million Muslims in the United Kingdom. The largest communities come from the Indian subcontinent, in the following order: Pakistan, Bangladesh, India. The Jewish community numbers approximately three hundred thousand.
Despite outward appearances there is a broad range of Jewish-Muslim dialogue groups and other kinds of interaction. This includes cultural associations, religious dialogues-in which sometimes Christians are also involved-as well as interaction on the local level between synagogues and mosques.
On the other side of the spectrum there are many violent attacks by Muslims on Jews. Among identified perpetrators of violent incidents, Muslims number much higher than their share of the population. The main sources of Muslim antisemitic hate propaganda are in certain Islamic groups, madrassas, and mosques. Some campuses have become hostile environments for Jews openly identifying with Israel.
On some religious issues such as circumcision Muslims and Jews have common interests. On others, such as the introduction of religious law, their positions greatly diverge.
Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France
Author(s): Arkin, Kimberly A.
Date: 2014
Topics: Sephardi Jews, North African Jewry, Antisemitism, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Race, Racism, Ethnography, National Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: During the course of her fieldwork in Paris, anthropologist Kimberly Arkin heard what she thought was a surprising admission. A French-born, North African Jewish (Sephardi) teenage girl laughingly told Arkin she was a racist. When asked what she meant by that, the girl responded, "It means I hate Arabs."

This girl was not unique. She and other Sephardi youth in Paris insisted, again and again, that they were not French, though born in France, and that they could not imagine their Jewish future in France. Fueled by her candid and compelling informants, Arkin's analysis delves into the connections and disjunctures between Jews and Muslims, religion and secular Republicanism, race and national community, and identity and culture in post-colonial France. Rhinestones argues that Sephardi youth, as both "Arabs" and "Jews," fall between categories of class, religion, and culture. Many reacted to this liminality by going beyond religion and culture to categorize their Jewishness as race, distinguishing Sephardi Jews from "Arab" Muslims, regardless of similarities they shared, while linking them to "European" Jews (Ashkenazim), regardless of their differences. But while racializing Jewishness might have made Sephardi Frenchness possible, it produced the opposite result: it re-grounded national community in religion-as-race, thereby making pluri-religious community appear threatening. Rhinestones thus sheds light on the production of race, alienation, and intolerance within marginalized French and European populations.