A "Third Partner" of world Jewry?: the role of the memory of the Shoah in the search for a new present-day European Jewish identity
TitleA "Third Partner" of world Jewry?: the role of the memory of the Shoah in the search for a new present-day European Jewish identity
Author
Call number940.5318/0241
Object number04412f
Place of publicationWestport, Connecticut, United States
PublisherPraeger
Year of publication
2004
Physical descriptionpp123-138
MaterialArticle
ISBN0275974669
NotesArticle from the book 'Contemporary responses to the Holocaust'pp123-138
Description
Depicts the landscape of the Jewish world today. States that there is an emergence of a "third partner" between- and independent of- Israel and American Jewry. Since the 1990s, against the backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the process of European unification and the deepening crisis in Israel, Jewish intellectuals in Europe have been searching for a new Jewish identity that reflects and emphasizes the continued Jewish existence on European soil