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New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora (New Perspectives in German Studies)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
023052107X, 9780230521070, 9780230582903
LCC
DS135.E83 N49 2008
Open Library ID
OL10194427M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
916 kB (937662 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
212\212
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Among Jews in the Diaspora, recent years and especially recent months have seen a growing disenchantment with Israeli politics and with Israel's claim as the only legitimate basis for Jewish existence. At the same time, European Jews have begun to reassert their own traditions in contrast to both America and Israel. As the case of German Jewry makes clear, much of this return of Diaspora comes from the Jewish periphery: women, Russian Jewish immigrants, Jews not recognised by Jewish law and Gays and Lesbians. But German Jews are also facing the involvement of non-Jewish Germans in Jewish culture, as both a boost and as an irritant. Ten internationally distinguished scholars are addressing these and other issues.

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