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Impressive and Invisible. Reflections on the Urban Disposition of Synagogue Buildings in Germany Since 1990
Author(s): Löffler, Beate
Editor(s): Keßler, Katrin; Ross, Sarah M.; Staudinger, Barbara; Weik, Lea
Date: 2022
Topics: Synagogues, Jewish Space, Main Topic: Other
The Dynamics of Jewish Space(s): Jewish Agency, Individual, Collective and the Creating, Maintenance or Discarding of Jewish Dominated Jewish Spaces
Author(s): Kranz, Dani
Editor(s): Keßler, Katrin; Ross, Sarah M.; Staudinger, Barbara; Weik, Lea
Date: 2022
Topics: Jewish Community, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Synagogues, Jewish Organisations, Jewish Space
Jewish Musical Heritage in Post-War Germany: Negotiating Jewish Self-Understanding through Synagogue Chant
Author(s): Ross, Sarah M.
Editor(s): Keßler, Katrin; Ross, Sarah M.; Staudinger, Barbara; Weik, Lea
Date: 2022
Topics: Ethnography, Ethnomusicology, Jewish Community, Jewish Music, Liturgy, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Synagogues, Rabbis
The Historicity Of The Witness: The Polish Relationship To Jews And Germans In The Polish Memory Discourse Of The Holocaust
Author(s): Maischein, Hannah
Editor(s): Grill, Tobias
Date: 2018
Topics: Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust, Memory
Contemporary Jewish Communities in Three European Cities: Challenges of Integration, Acculturation and Ethnic Identity
Author(s): Lev Ari, Lilach
Date: 2022
Topics: Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity, Jewish Continuity, Jewish Community, Immigration, Integration, Antisemitism
Abstract: Contemporary Jewish identity, integration and acculturation in Europe has become an urgent topic in view of the current wave of antisemitism and reliable research on the present state of Jewish identity is scarce. Lilach Lev Ari has chosen three ethnically diverse communities – Paris, Brussels, and Antwerp – that can shed a light on the identity and acculturation of the Jewish minority in Europe. To understand patterns of social integration of native-born and immigrant Jews in the three host societies she applies the correlational quantitative method and has conducted semi-structured interviews. The study can promote further understanding of Jewish continuity within the non-Jewish host societies in a situation, when there is a concern about the resilience and strength of the Jewish communities vis-à-vis new waves of antisemitism.
From Russia to Israel – And Back? Contemporary Transnational Russian Israeli Diaspora
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir Zeev
Date: 2021
Topics: Main Topic: Demography and Migration, Aliyah, Diaspora, Israeli Expatriates, Russian Emigration, Russian-Speaking Jews
Abstract: Of about a million Jews that arrived to Israel from the (former) USSR after 1989 some 12% left the country by the end of 2017. It is estimated that about a half of them left "back" for the FSU, and the rest for the USA, Canada and the Western Europe. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of this specific Jewish Israeli Diaspora group through cutting-edge approaches in the social sciences, and examines the settlement patterns of Israeli Russian-speaking emigrants, their identity, social demographic profile, reasons of emigration, their economic achievements, identification, and status vis-à-vis host Jewish and non-Jewish environment, vision of Israel, migration interests and behavior, as well as their social and community networks, elites and institutions. Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin makes a significant contribution to migration theory, academic understanding of transnational Diasporas, and sheds a new light on the identity and structure of contemporary Israeli society. The book is based on the unique statistics from Israeli and other Government sources and sociological information obtained from the author’s first of this kind on-going study of Israeli Russian-speaking emigrant communities in different regions of the world.
Thirty Years After. The Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow of the Czech Jewish Community
Author(s): Kraus, Tomáš
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Community, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Post-1989
Holocaust Memorialization in Poland: A Case Study of Polin Museum
Author(s): Sineaeva-Pankowska, Natalia
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Holocaust Memorials, Jewish Museums, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Preserving Jewish Cemeteries as an Actual Challenge in Contemporary Poland
Author(s): Chipczyńska, Anna
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Heritage, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Cemeteries
What is Jewish about Contemporary Central European Jewish Culture?
Author(s): Gebert, Konstanty
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Culture, Jewish Heritage, Main Topic: Culture and Heritage
The Antisemitic Paradox in Europe: Empirical Evidences and Jewish Perceptions. A Comparative Study Between the West and East
Author(s): Fireberg, Haim
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Surveys
Holocaust Denial as a Symptom of Unresolved European History
Author(s): Porat, Dina
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial
Jewish-Roma Relations in the former Czechoslovakia: An Alliance Against Racism
Author(s): Schuster, Michal
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Comparisons with other communities, Antisemitism, Racism, Roma, Main Topic: Antisemitism
Jews and Muslims in the Czech Republic – Demography, Communal Institutions, Mutual Relations
Author(s): Tarant, Zbyněk
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Comparisons with other communities, Demography, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Jewish Community, Main Topic: Other, Jewish Organisations
Ethno-religious Othering as a Reason Behind the Central European* Jewish Distancing from Israel
Author(s): Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Israel Attachment
The “Missing” and “Missed” Jews in Hungary
Author(s): Vincze, Kata Zsófia
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Assimilation, Jewish Community
Jewish Religious-Cultural Traditions and Identity Patterns in Post-Communist Hungary
Author(s): Ildikó, Barna; Kovács, András
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Religious Observance and Practice
“Russians,” “Sephardi”, and “Israelis”: The Changing Structure of Austrian Jewry
Author(s): Khanin, Vladimir Zeev
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Demography, Israeli Expatriates, Sephardi Jews, Russian-Speaking Jews
Renewal or Regression? Jewish Self-Assertion and Re-Orientation in Twenty-first Century Central Europe
Author(s): Schoeps, Julius H.
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Jewish Identity, Jewish Renewal, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Jewish Demography in the European Union – Virtuous and Vicious Paths
Author(s): DellaPergola, Sergio
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Demography, Main Topic: Demography and Migration
Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe
Editor(s): Fireberg, Haim; Glöckner, Olaf; Zoufalá, Marcela Menachem
Date: 2020
Topics: Antisemitism, Jewish Identity, Jewish Revival, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Jewish life in Europe has undergone dramatic changes and transformations within the 20th century and also the last two decades. The phenomenon of the dual position of the Jewish minority in relation to the majority, not entirely unusual for Jewish Diaspora communities, manifested itself most distinctly on the European continent. This unique Jewish experience of the ambiguous position of insider and outsider may provide valuable views on contemporary European reality and identity crisis. The book focuses inter alia on the main common denominators of contemporary Jewish life in Central Europe, such as an intense confrontation with the heritage of the Holocaust and unrelenting antisemitism on the one hand and on the other hand, huge appreciation of traditional Jewish learning and culture by a considerable part of non-Jewish Europeans. The volume includes contributions on Jewish life in central European countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Germany.
Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain Redefining National Boundaries
Author(s): Weisz, Martina L.
Date: 2019
Topics: Main Topic: Other, National Identity, Jewish - Muslim Relations, Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals, Memory
Abstract: The book analyzes the place of religious difference in late modernity through a study of the role played by Jews and Muslims in the construction of contemporary Spanish national identity. The focus is on the transition from an exclusive, homogeneous sense of collective Self toward a more pluralistic, open and tolerant one in an European context. This process is approached from different dimensions. At the national level, it follows the changes in nationalist historiography, the education system and the public debates on national identity. At the international level, it tackles the problem from the perspective of Spanish foreign policy towards Israel and the Arab-Muslim states in a changing global context. From the social-communicational point of view, the emphasis is on the construction of the Self–Other dichotomy (with Jewish and Muslim others) as reflected in the three leading Spanish newspapers.