Ulteriori informazioni
Europe is in the midst of a rapid political and economic unification. What does this mean for the Jewish minority numbering less than 2 million people and still suffering from the aftermath of the Shoah? Will the Jewish communities participate in Europe s bold venture without risking total assimilation? Are they vibrant enough to form a new Jewish center alongside Israel and the American Jewish community, or are they hopelessly divided and on a Road to Nowhere Different perspectives are predicted, relating to demographical, cultural and sociological aspects. This volume provides exciting, thorough and controversial answers by renowned scholars from Europe, Israel, North- and Latin America many of them also committed to local Jewish community building.
Info autore
Julius H. Schoeps is Emeritus Professor for German-Jewish History at the University of Potsdam. He is the Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center of European Jewish Studies in Potsdam. His main foci of research are German-Jewish history and Zionism, migration research, modern anti-Semitism and art plunder during Nazi rule in Germany.
Olaf Glöckner is an historian and project assistant at the Moses Mendelssohn Center of European Jewish Studies in Potsdam. He is specialized in contemporary Russian Jewish Immigration to Israel and Germany and in European Jewish developments after 1989.
