In this Book
- Glorious, Accursed Europe
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Brandeis University Press
summary
This volume offers a fascinating look at the complex relationship between Jews and Europe during the past two hundred years, and how the European Jewish and non-Jewish intelligentsia interpreted the modern Jewish experience, primarily in Germany, Russia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Beginning with premodern European attitudes toward Jews, Reinharz and Shavit move quickly to “the glorious nineteenth century,” a period in which Jewish dreams of true assimilation came up against modern antisemitism. Later chapters explore the fin-de-siècle “crisis of modernity”; the myth of the modern European Jew; expectations and fears in the interwar period; differences between European nations in their attitude toward Jews; the views of Zionists and early settlers of Palestine and Israel toward the Europe left behind; and views of contemporary Israeli intellectuals toward Europe, including its new Muslim population—the latest incarnation of the Jewish Question in Europe.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 6. Old Europe or New Europe?
- pp. 100-120
- 7. Manifold Europes
- pp. 121-133
- 10. Europe, Old or New?
- pp. 179-191
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-290
Additional Information
ISBN
9781584659136
Related ISBN(s)
9781584658436
MARC Record
OCLC
649914511
Pages
301
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-08
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010