Alan Mittleman
American Jewish Leaders
American Jewish Organizations
American Jewry
American Jews
American Joint Distribution Committee
Avi Beker
Barry A. Kosmin
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Daniel J. Elazar
David Clayman
David Patterson
diaspora studies
E. Zev Sufott
Eotvos Lorand University
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Ethno National Diasporas
European Jewish communities
European Jewry
Gabriel Sheffer
Geza Komoroczy
Holocaust aftermath
Israel Finestein
Jean-Jacques Wahl
Jewish Communal Life
Jewish Community
Jewish community reconstruction Europe
Jewish Community Services
Jewish Continuity
Jewish cultural renewal
Jewish Day Schools
Jewish Policy Research
Jewish Studies
Keren Hayesod
Leon Volovici
life
Lishkat HaKesher
Marlena Schmool
Mikhail Krutikov
Modern Hebrew Literature
Morton H. Narrowe
postwar Jewish identity
Ralph I. Goldman
Rashid Kaplanov
Russian Jewry
S. Ilan Troen
Sonia Misak
Soviet Jewry
transnational Jewish networks
United Synagogue
Viennese Jewish Community
WJC.
World Jewry
Yosef Gorny
Product details
- ISBN 9781138511194
- Weight: 840g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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After World War II, the center of gravity for world Jewry moved outside Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, large-scale emigration and postwar assimilation resulted in a disheartening contraction of European Jewry, with the notable exception of France. Today, Europe's Jews number only 17 percent of the world Jewish population. At the beginning of this century, they comprised 83 percent and were the center of the modern Jewish experience. In a radical reversal, former peripheries became the centers, notably American Jewry, the largest and most dynamic of the Diaspora communities, and the State of Israel. An examination of the altered place of Europe and its future role in Jewish history is long overdue.In Jewish Centers and Peripheries, S. Han Troen presents evidence of cultural renewal and community reorganization - both internally driven and supported by Israeli-and American-based Jewish organizations - which promise to assure the continuity and vitality of Jewish life in Europe. This volume presents the contributions of scholars, senior community professionals, lay leaders, and former diplomats from Europe, Israel, and America, including Yosef Gorny, Gabriel Sheffer, Rashid Kaplanov, Barry Kosmin, Ralph Goldman, Jean-Jacques Wahl, Israel Finestein, David Patterson, and Daniel Elazar.These original and thoughtful contributions examine dynamic relationships among European, American, and Israeli communities at times bringing personal knowledge of significant events pertinent to understanding these relationships. Collectively they suggest that present conditions are ripe for the reemergence of European Jewry, though on a scale much diminished from that of the pre-Holocaust period. Moreover, the prospects for the rejuvenation of European Jewry mirror the possibilities for Jewish continuity everywhere. Jewish Centers and Peripheries is a strikingly informative assessment of the condition of world Jewry at the close of the century.
