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Politicizing Russian Jewish Ethnicity: A Theoretical and Empirical Outlook on Jews in Russia
Author(s): Oskolkov, Petr
Editor(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2025
Topics: Jewish Identity, Ethnicity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Politics
Jews and Jewish Topics in the Ukrainian Political Discourse at the Backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian War
Author(s): Chernin, Velvl
Editor(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2025
Topics: Politics, Main Topic: Other, Ukraine-Russia war (since 2014)
Jews and Their Political Experiences in Belarus Before and After the Anti-Authoritarian Revolution
Author(s): Friedman, Alexander
Editor(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2025
Topics: Politics, Russian-Speaking Jews, Main Topic: Other
Jews in the Political Landscape of the Baltic States
Author(s): Iakimova, Elizaveta A.
Editor(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2025
Topics: Politics, Russian-Speaking Jews, Main Topic: Other
Russian-speaking Jews and their Electoral Behavior in the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s): Levtov, Marianna
Editor(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2025
Topics: Russian-Speaking Jews, Main Topic: Other, Politics, Voting Patterns, Elections
In Search of a New Political Identity: Russian-Speaking “Juifs Citoyens” in France (First Generation)
Author(s): Malyuta, Daria
Editor(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2025
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Politics, Jewish Community, Russian-Speaking Jews, Immigration
Introduction: Russian-speaking Jews as a Transnational Political Community: Models of Participation, Identity, and Culture in a Time of Global Upheaval
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Editor(s): Khanin, Vladimir Ze'ev; Glöckner, Olaf
Date: 2025
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Politics, Jewish Community, Russian-Speaking Jews, Diaspora, Diaspora Relations, Israel-Diaspora Relations
A Jewish Renaissance? Reflections on Jewish Life in East Central Europe since 1989
Author(s): Miller, Michael L.
Editor(s): Blumenthal, Rachel; Herskowitz, Daniel M.; Mayerhofer, Kerstin
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish Revival, Post-1989
Espaces du yiddish : La création en yiddish dans la première génération des enfants de yiddishophones nés en France
Translated Title: Yiddish Spaces: Yiddish Creation in the First Generation of Children of Yiddish Speakers Born in France
Author(s): Lévy, Erez
Editor(s): Kohn, Max; Koenig, Raphaël
Date: 2024
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Yiddish, Memory
Abstract: Cette contribution tente d’approcher les sentiments nourris par le souvenir du Yiddishland à la fin du XXe siècle et au début du XXIe siècle. Elle cherche, afin d’aborder cette sphère habitée par l’ancrage familial, traversée par des antagonismes idéologiques, hantée par le souvenir de l’émigration et de l’intégration ainsi que celui de souffrances inouïes et longtemps indicibles, à suivre les représentations idéales d’un monde perdu, dans le domaine de la culture et dans celui des utopies politiques, en s’intéressant d’une part à des aspects du renouveau de l’expression culturelle yiddish en France au cours des trois dernières décennies, en particulier dans la chanson (Jacques Grober, Violette Szmajer, Batia Baum, Michèle Tauber et le groupe du Paon doré) ; d’autre part aux survivances des motifs d’utopie politique trouvant leur source dans l’épopée idéologique et historique du Yiddishland (Charles Melman, Mojsze Zalcman) ; enfin à la réappropriation de la mémoire véhiculée par le yiddish telle qu’elle peut être perçue dans les interviews réalisées par Max Kohn entre 2006 et 2016. Cette recherche, tentative d’exploration d’un cheminement affectif vers le yiddish de la part d’un enfant né à cette époque en Israël et ayant grandi en France dans une famille non yiddishophone, se limitera à certaines expressions de cette mémoire et de ces motifs d’espérance en France, sans s’interdire de les mettre en rapport avec des expressions analogues dans d’autres pays de la diaspora juive ou en Israël.
Motivations linguistiques et psychiques des locuteurs-apprenants du djudyó (judéo-espagnol): Que peut-on apprendre lors d’un cours portant sur sa propre langue ?
Translated Title: Linguistic and Psychological Motivations of Speakers-Learners of Djudyó (Judeo-Spanish): What can one learn during a course in one's own language?
Author(s): Mavrogiannis, Pandelis
Editor(s): Kohn, Max; Koenig, Raphaël
Date: 2024
Topics: Ladino and Haketia, Main Topic: Other, Language, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Jewish Education, Ethnography
Abstract: Aujourd’hui, le djudyó (judéo-espagnol) n’est plus transmis en France. Des associations, comme Aki Estamos, offrent aux personnes qui le parlent ou le comprennent la possibilité de suivre des cours de langue. Les participants, sans être des locuteurs à part entière, ne sont pas non plus des apprenants stricto sensu, puisqu’ils possèdent des compétences linguistiques acquises dans leur enfance. Dans leur cas, la dichotomie entre acquisition et apprentissage est inopérante. Il convient d’identifier les objectifs de ces locuteurs-apprenants, qui suivent les cours sans développer de nouvelles compétences langagières. Ce sont les mots et leurs sonorités qui montent alors sur le devant de la scène, délaissant la grammaire. Le cadre des cours constitue un prétexte pour retrouver une langue et un monde disparus. M’appuyant sur l’observation participante, j’esquisserai les profils linguistiques de ces participants pour tenter d’en comprendre la démarche.
Disparition du yiddish et transmission du traumatisme chez les descendants de victimes de la Shoah: L’expérience des groupes de parole du Centre Georges-Devereux
Translated Title: The Disappearance of Yiddish and the Transmission of Trauma among Descendants of Holocaust Victims: The Experience of the Georges-Devereux Center's Support Groups
Author(s): Zajde, Nathalie
Editor(s): Kohn, Max; Koenig, Raphaël
Date: 2024
Topics: Yiddish, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Trauma, Holocaust Survivors, Social Work, Psychology/Psychiatry, Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, Ageing and the Elderly, Age and Generational Issues
Abstract: La Shoah fut la volonté de détruire le peuple juif, ses cultures, ses pratiques sociales et religieuses. L’une des conséquences majeures du génocide fut la disparition de l’univers culturel, linguistique et psychothérapique du yiddishkeit. Quelle incidence cette disparition eut-elle sur le fonctionnement psychologique des survivants et descendants de survivants de la Shoah ? Comment grandit-on quand la langue de la famille a disparu ? Quelle singulière souffrance cette disparition linguistique eut-elle pour corollaire ? À quelles nouvelles propositions psychothérapiques a-t-elle donné naissance ? Ces questions sont soulevées au sein des groupes de paroles de survivants et de descendants de survivants de la Shoah mis en place depuis 1991, au sein de l’équipe d’ethnopsychiatrie du Pr. Tobie Nathan, au Centre Georges-Devereux.
Von Jewporn, Baseballschlägern und Identitätskatern: Jüdisches Selbstverständnis bei Max Czollek und Dmitrij Kapitelman
Translated Title: Of Jewporn, baseball bats and identity hangovers: Jewish self-understanding in Max Czollek and Dmitrij Kapitelman
Author(s): Rompf, Hanna Maria
Editor(s): Twist, Joseph
Date: 2024
Topics: Jewish - Non - Jewish Relations, Literature, Immigration, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: In den letzten Jahren bringt eine jüngere Generation von Künstler*innen neue Ansätze zu gegenwärtigem Judentum in Deutschland in den öffentlichen Diskurs ein. Einige von ihnen lehnen eine deutsche Erinnerungskultur ab, die Juden als Teil eines Opferdiskurses definiert. Sie fordern dagegen selbstbewusst das Recht ein, ihre eigene Identität selbst zu bestimmen. Dabei konzentrieren sie sich verstärkt auf die multikulturelle Seite jüdischen Lebens und vertreten oft einen säkularen Ansatz dazu. Eine kontroverse Stimme ist Max Czollek, dessen Polemik Desintegriert euch! (2018) Deutschlands vermeintliche Bewältigung der NS-Vergangenheit und sein selbsterklärtes Image als Nation einer kulturellen Vielfalt als „Integrationstheater“ bezeichnet.

Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit solche Positionen auch in literarischen Texten manifest werden. Denn vielfach schreiben jüdische Autor*innen in Deutschland aus einer migrantischen Perspektive. Ein Beispiel dafür ist der ukrainische Schriftsteller Dmitrij Kapitelman, der im Kindesalter als Kontingentflüchtling nach Deutschland einwanderte. Sein Buch Das Lächeln meines unsichtbaren Vaters (2016) thematisiert seine zwischen gegensätzlichen kulturellen Einflüssen oszillierende Identität. Diese entspringt nicht nur den Gegensätzen zwischen seinem postsowjetischen sowie jüdischen Erbe und der Sozialisation in Deutschland. Sein fehlendes Zugehörigkeitsgefühl resultiert auch aus dem Hass gegen Minderheitenkulturen in der deutschen Gesellschaft nach der Wiedervereinigung. In seinem Text offenbart Kapitelman gesellschaftspolitische Missstände im Umgang mit Migranten und Juden und schreibt damit gegen Fremdenfeindlichkeit und nationalistische Tendenzen an.
Remembering the Holocaust after 1989: Slovakia More Than Thirty Years Later
Author(s): Vrzgulová, Monika
Editor(s): Srodecki, Paul; Kozlova, Daria
Date: 2023
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration, Post-1989
World War II and the Holocaust in Post-Communist Memorial Museums
Author(s): Radonić, Ljiljana
Editor(s): Srodecki, Paul; Kozlova, Daria
Date: 2023
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration, Post-1989, Museums, Jewish Museums
Stumbling Blocks in the Way — Holocaust Remembrance in Hungary after 1989
Author(s): Agora, Zsuzsanna; Deak, George
Editor(s): Srodecki, Paul; Kozlova, Daria
Date: 2023
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Commemoration, Post-1989
The Stranger at Hand: Antisemitic Prejudices in Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Kovács, András
Date: 2011
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Abstract: In 2010 an extremist party with openly racist views, using barely concealed antisemitic language, received 17% of the votes in the parliamentary elections in Hungary. How can this awkward development in a newly established European democracy be explained? In this book the author examines antisemitism in post-communist Hungary in light of the empirical sociological studies of the past 20 years. The principal aim is to reconstruct the range, intensity and content of anti-Jewish prejudices as well as the factors affecting their change over time. The author also reveals the social background against which the newest political developments should be analyzed, and helps to determine whether in Hungary today antisemitism is only an ephemeral, temporary phenomenon or a gradually articulating, dynamic political ideology.
Political Cultures of Denial? Antisemitism in Sweden and Scandinavia
Author(s): Bachner, Henrik
Editor(s): Rensmann, Lars; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism, Politics
Kneidalach, Paprika and the Spanish Omelet Jewish Food and Identity in Barcelona Today
Author(s): Gallin, Catherine Simone
Editor(s): Gallin, Catherine; Magliveras, Simeon S.
Date: 2014
Topics: Jewish Identity, Food, Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the construction and expression of Jewish identity through food in current-day Barcelona based on historical research and anthropological fieldwork. The Jewish population of Barcelona is at once small and vastly diverse, consisting of immigrants from Morocco, Turkey, Argentina, the United States, Poland, and many other countries. This chapter examines how the food habits and customs of these diverse populations interact with each other. It focuses on the culinary and cultural fusion―or lack thereof―between the Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities of Barcelona, the observance of kashrut on a collective and individual level, and the conceptualization of ‘Jewish food’ as a cultural term even when it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what the term ‘Jewish food’ means. For today’s Jewish population in Barcelona, is ‘Jewish food’ a reality, a fabrication based on nostalgia, or a re-creation of a lost identity?
Orthodox Fraternities and Contingent Equalities: Muslims and Jews between Public (Health) Policy Discourse and Experience
Author(s): Kasstan, Ben
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Orthodox Judaism, Minorities, Politics, Policy, Health
Abstract: This paper critiques representations of observant Muslims and Jews in Britain as constituting an ‘Orthodox fraternity’ when it comes to equality discourse by drawing on policy activism around autopsy, COVID-19 protocols, and sexuality education. The Equality Act (2010) aims to protect people with ‘protected characteristics’ from discrimination, which include (but are not limited to) religion and sexual orientation. I suggest that religious minorities are presented in policy discourse as mobilizing the Equality Act to collaboratively defend their rights to protection of difference. Similarly, anthropological and sociological attention to organised interfaith activism reifies representations of collaborations between religious minorities but obscures situated valuations of equality. I instead examine the contingent value of equality by highlighting opposition to LGBT inclusion. The trope of ‘Orthodox fraternities’ emerges as a useful tool to critique the construction of collaborations between minorities in the context of ‘multiculturalism,’ while masking everyday experiences of prejudice and xenophobia.
“This Is Just Where We Are in History” Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, Temporality, and Modalities of Solidarity
Author(s): Egorova, Yulia
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens. I argue that while at first blush my Muslim interlocutors appear to read their community, in some historical time-frames, as being in a position of relative disadvantage in comparison to that of their Jewish counterparts, further analysis of their understanding of the positionalities of British Jews and British Muslims reveals a theorization that conveys a strong sense of solidarity with British Jewish citizens and unequivocally conceptualizes them as a political minority. I also suggest that these comparative reflections on the minority condition bear a productive potential for drawing public attention to specific challenges that different minority groups face.
Jews and Muslims in Sarcelles: Face to Face or Side by Side?
Author(s): Mayer, Nonna; Tiberj, Vincent
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations
Abstract: From an intergroup conflict perspective, this paper studies cross perceptions and patterns of sociability between Jews and Muslims in a French suburban multicultural context, the town of Sarcelles ( Val d’Oise), where violent anti-Semitic riots took place in July 2014. Drawing on a sample representative of the town’s adult population from an experimental telephone survey conducted in January 2019, we show that everyday relations between Jews and Muslims do not show any particular tension, and that antisemitism is massively condemned. However there is a strong feeling of insecurity among Jews who both tend to be closest to their own group, and are seen as a separate group, with more social and political influence locally than other groups.
Between Meta-History and Memory: Narrating the Jewish-Muslim Past in Morocco and Present in France
Author(s): Malinovich, Nadia
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Interviews, North African Jewry, Immigration
Abstract: Drawing on original interviews conducted between 2016 and 2018, this article explores understandings of Muslim-Jewish relations among Jews who immigrated from Morocco to France after 1945. These interviews suggest that the weight of currently circulating meta-discourses can lead to dissonances between individuals’ personal memories and the collective memories that they invoke in regard to Jewish-Muslim relations. As these interviews were conducted as part of a larger study of graduates of the schools of the Alliance Israelite Universelle in the MENA who immigrated to France, Canada and the United States after 1945, the author places these French findings in a larger comparative context, considering how the memories and perspectives of Moroccan Jews who immigrated to France converge and diverge from those who emigrated to North America.
Learning the Language of the Other? Hebrew and Arabic in Two Parisian Associations
Author(s): Hathroubi, Samia
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Dialogue, Language, Education: Adult Education, Ethnography
Abstract: This paper analyses interactions between Jews and Muslims in Paris through a case-study of two Parisian not for profit organizations: Centre Culturel Dalâla and Parler en Paix. The aim of both organizations is to teach Hebrew and Arabic language to students of all levels. Based on fieldwork carried out within these organizations and through participant observation of their classes and cultural activities, I investigate the interpersonal relationships they create between Jews and Muslims on the one hand, and within each group on the other. Using a comparative approach, the paper discusses Jewish-Muslim relations, an often overlooked field within interreligious studies. It proposes an investigation through three perspectives: the generational, the memorial and post-colonial, and finally the transnational into which the Muslim-Jewish relationship in France is embedded allowing us to go beyond both irenic or binary visions of the relationship between Jews and Muslims in France, leaving behind a vision marked by an often tragic present.
Precarious Companionship: Discourses of Adversity and Commonality in Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Initiatives in Germany
Author(s): Nagel, Alexander-Kenneth; Peretz, Dekel
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Interfaith Dialogue, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Dialogue
Abstract: Muslims and Jews are an integral part of interreligious activism in Germany. They share a stricter notion of monotheism as compared to Christians. Local Jewish-Muslim dialogue takes place in the shadow of the Middle East conflict as well as radical Islamic terror attacks, and both pursue similar interests, i.e. regarding circumcision and halal or kosher butchering. We explore how the multi-layered setting shapes Jewish-Muslim encounters within interreligious initiatives in Germany. We analyse discourses in two spheres of interreligious dialogue. The first is local in-person dialogue initiatives that took place in the years 2011/12 during the circumcision debate. The second is translocal dialogue activities presented in social media that took place in 2020 when dialogue had moved to digital frameworks and social media due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The focal point of our comparative analysis is the discourses of adversity and commonality shaping these conversations and the narratives of difference and unity they produce.
The Politics of Hospitality: Welcome and Not So Welcome Middle Easterners in Germany
Author(s): Kranz, Dani
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Islamophobia, Minorities, Israeli Expatriates, National Identity, Nationalism
Abstract: Around 2011 Israeli (Jewish) immigration to Germany became a recurring subject in public discourse. Reflecting ideological investments, the migration was reported with curiosity. Israeli migrants turned into Jews in German imagination, contradicting their self-definition of being primarily Israelis. As Jews they were welcome, but within limits. If the ‘guests’ expressed too much agency and challenged the status quo of German/Jewish and more so Jewish/Muslim and Israeli/Palestinian relations, things could become complicated. While Palestinian issues are met with increasing support across the social, media, and political spheres, Palestinians are not that welcome as (Muslim) migrants. They are suspected of importing a ‘new antisemitism.’ This paper seeks to unravel the conflicting attitudes towards the interlinked categories Israelis/Jews and Muslims/Palestinians, by focussing on the issue of the politics of hospitality. These reveal how agentic presences of those categorised as others destabilise the assumed ethnic, and ethno-religious boundaries of the German, nominally Christian, majority.
Desiring Memorials: Jews, Muslims, and the Human of Citizenship
Author(s): Doughan, Sultan
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Islamophobia, Holocaust Memorials, Holocaust Education, Holocaust, Holocaust Commemoration, Citizenship, Secularity, Minorities
Abstract: Germany is hailed as a successful model of facing difficult pasts. Based on ethnographic research in civic education, this article situates Holocaust commemoration within German secularism. It brings together memory, Palestine and African-American studies to articulate how Holocaust memory manages an enduring crisis of citizenship. This crisis is predicated upon the disparity between the ideal of freedom and the reality of ethno-religious difference. The article demonstrates how Holocaust memory has been institutionally folded into secular time leading to a more liberal nation-state. It further explores memorial sites as extensions of secular governance, but also spaces in which embodied forms of memory, such as the Palestinian experience of catastrophe enter and desire an extension of this humanity. This notion of humanity co-produces the figure of the “anti-human.” This figure is enabled by an older strand of antisemitism and has an “afterlife” in the real or imagined body of the “Palestinian-Muslim troublemaker.”
Abrahamic Stranger: Muslim German Intellectuals on Jewish German Intellectuals and Questions of Belonging
Author(s): Becker, Elizabeth; Topkara, Ufuk
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other, Multiculturalism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Universities / Higher Education
Abstract: Religious minorities have always been at the centre of the German nation-state’s self-understanding, as it came to define itself vis a vis, and often against, them. Historically, this can be seen specifically in the Jewish experience, and today reverberates in the experience of Muslims grappling with a position of alterity in German society. We will move beyond the scholarship on these two religious minority groups to that of these two religious minority groups—that is the intellectual milieu of German Jews and German Muslims. Both have confronted the insider-outsider status of religious minorities in Germany, while themselves occupying—and thinking from—this position of alterity. As Jewish intellectuals a century prior, Muslim intellectuals are confronting the (im)possibility of fully belonging to the society at hand. In so doing, they are, at times inadvertently, coming into conversation with Jewish intellectuals past on ideas surrounding the practice of religion, pluralism, minority-state relations, and social ethics.
The Avoidance of Love? Rubbing Shoulders in the Secular City
Author(s): Sheldon, Ruth
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other, Care and Welfare, Haredi / Strictly Orthodox Jews, Ethnography, Jewish Women, Multiculturalism
Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic research with Haredi women in Stamford Hill to explore the limits of the secular vocabularies which dominate sociological diversity discourse, I ask why an assumed Jewish-Muslim enmity became its focus. First my response explores how a political theology of European Christendom, and a particular conjuncture of its race-religion constellation (Topolski 2018) finds expression in a secular concept of conviviality that regulates possibilities for intimacy in Hackney. I develop the claim that rationalist ideals of liberal sociality are in part mobilized to repress and contain violent histories of assimilation and exclusion in the borough. Second, I turn to Haredi women’s expression of an alternative Jewish-Muslim picture through intimacies that diverge from a convivial grammar. This leads me to tentatively explore how a vernacular Hasidic concept of chesed might hold together antinomies of care and violence, and offer alternatives for being-with, and mourning-with the neighbour in violent times.
Introduction: Jews and Muslims in Europe. Between Discourse and Experience
Author(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Editor(s): Gidley, Ben; Everett, Samuel Sami
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish - Muslim Relations, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: The Jew and the Muslim are historically among the primary figures of alterity in Europe, the constitutive outsiders who have shaped what Europe is, notably around questions of conflict, migration and integration. However, on the ground contemporary Jewish and Muslim communities have often been at the forefront of critical engagement with these questions, for example with regard to the Mediterranean migration crisis and heightened societal security concerns. This introduction sets out the main questions and themes of this volume.
Like Salt for Bread. The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Author(s): Friedman, Francine
Date: 2021
Topics: Jewish Community, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Sephardi Jews, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Abstract: This book is the only comprehensive treatment in any language of a rather “exotic” Balkan Jewish community. It places the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina into the context of the Jewish world, but also of the world within which it existed for around five hundred years under various empires and regimes. The Bosnian Jews might have remained a mostly unknown community to the rest of the world had it not played a unique role within the Bosnian Wars of the early 1990s, providing humanitarian aid to its neighbor Serbs, Croats, and Muslims.
Identität und Assimilierung: Juden und Roma in Rumänien
Translated Title: Identity and Assimilation: Jews and Roma in Romania
Author(s): Diaconu, Mădălina
Date: 20201
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Roma, Jewish Identity, Comparisons with other communities, Assimilation
(Friendly) Strangers in Their Own Land No More Third-Generation Jews and Socio-Political Activism in the Present in Germany
Author(s): Kranz, Dani
Editor(s): Bartlett, Catherine; Schlör, Joachim
Date: 2021
Topics: Holocaust Survivors: Grandchildren of, Politics, Young Adults / Emerging Adulthood, Main Topic: Other, Jewish Identity, Activism
Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Connections and Misconceptions
Author(s): Bachner, Henrik
Editor(s): O’Donnell Polyakov, Emma
Date: 2018
Topics: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Klal Yisrael Today: Unity and Diversity. Reflections on Europe and Latin America in a Globalized World
Author(s): Bokser Liwerant, Judit; Ben-Rafael, Eliezer
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Diaspora, Jewish Identity
The Future of European Jewry—A Changing Condition in a Changing Context?
Author(s): Trigano, Shmuel
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Other
From anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political anti-Semitism? On Dynamics of anti-Semitism in post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Kovács, András
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Politics
Anti-Semitism or Judeophobia? The Intellectual Debate in France 2000–2005
Author(s): Charbit, Denis
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
“Anti-Semites of the Continent Unite!” Is the East still Different?
Author(s): Vago, Raphael
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Post-1989, Antisemitism, Communism, Main Topic: Antisemitism
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
The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. New Ethno-National Constellations since 1989
Author(s): Bodemann, Y. Michal
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Diaspora, Jewish Identity, Immigration, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Farewell to Europe? On French Jewish Skepticism about the New Universalism
Author(s): Birnbaum, Pierre
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Other
Does European Jewry Need a New Ethnic Spiritual Umbrella? Reflections
Author(s): Gorny, Yosef
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Representation, Umbrella Bodies, Jewish Peoplehood, Diaspora, European Union
Ghosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present: New and Old “Others” in Contemporary Spain
Author(s): Rein, Raanan; Weisz, Martina
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, National Identity, Memory
Between Eurasia and Europe: Jewish Community and Identities in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir Zeev
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Cultural Pluralism as an American Zionist Option for Solidarity and its Relevance for Today’s European Jewry
Author(s): Schiff, Ofer
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Diaspora, Main Topic: Other, Diaspora Relations, Comparisons with other communities, Diversity, Pluralism
The European Jewish Diaspora: The Third Pillar of World Jewry?
Author(s): Sheffer, Gabriel
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Diaspora, Main Topic: Other, Jewish Peoplehood
Jews in Europe: Demographic Trends, Contexts and Outlooks
Author(s): DellaPergola, Sergio
Editor(s): Gloeckner, Olaf; Schoeps, Julius H.
Date: 2011
Topics: Demography, Main Topic: Demography and Migration
Pillars of Salt: Israelis in Berlin and Toronto
Author(s): Merkur, Lianne
Date: 2019
Topics: Diaspora, Comparisons with other communities, Israeli Expatriates, Immigration, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: In Pillars of Salt, Lianne Merkur offers an account of early 21st century immigration as experienced by Israelis in Berlin and Toronto. Commonly portrayed as contrary to the territorial emphasis of national integrity, these individuals and communities appear to explore a sense of belonging that evaluates and incorporates both foreign and familiar elements. Social media allows for an alternative space to balance between new home and homeland, studied here as developing simultaneously in multiple sites. The author makes use of innovative methodologies to document the participants’ own perspectives expressed online, at events or on paper. She thereby challenges established norms of interpretation to prove that personal decisions, primarily regarding preferred language or simply self-identification, are the cornerstones of collective character.
Contemporary Forms of the Oldest Hatred: Modern Antisemitism in the Visegrád Countries
Author(s): Ildikó, Barna; Anikó, Félix; Mesežnikov, Grigorij; Pankowski, Rafal; Šternová, Veronika
Editor(s): Bíró, Anna-Mária; Lantos Swett, Katrina
Date: 2018
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Attitude Surveys
Vanishing Diaspora? Jews in the Netherlands and Their Ties with Judaism: Facts and Expectations about Their Future
Author(s): de Vries, Marlene
Editor(s): Kaplan, Yosef; Michman, Dan
Date: 2017
Topics: Demography, Intermarriage, Main Topic: Demography and Migration