Road to Nowhere?

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.

• ContentsPart I: The Jewish World ContextJews in Europe: Demographic Trends, Contexts and Outlooks Sergio DellaPergolaThe European Jewish Diaspora: The Third Pillar of World Jewry? Gabriel ShefferCultural Pluralism as an American Zionist Option for Solidarity and its Relevance for Today's European Jewry Ofer SchiffPart II: European Jewish ExperiencesBetween Eurasia and Europe: Jewish Community and Identities in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Ze'ev KhaninA Dual, Divided Modernization. Reflections on 200 Years of the Jewish Reform Movement in Germany Micha BrumlikGhosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present: New and Old "Others" in Contemporary Spain Raanan Rein/ Martina WeiszThe Dialectics of the Diaspora. On the Art of Being Jewish in the Swedish Minority Lars DencikDoes European Jewry need a New Ethnic Spiritual Umbrella? Reflections Yosef GornyFarewell to Europe? On French Jewish Skepticism about the New Universalism Pierre BirnbaumThe Return of the European Jewish Diaspora. New Ethno-National Constellations since 1989 Michal Y. BodemanReading Between the Lines. Assertion and Reassertion in European Jewish Life Antony LermanPart III: Anti Semitism, Israel and Jewish PoliticsHate Against the Others. About the Fatal Chain Creating Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism Thomas Gergely"Anti-Semites of the Continent Unite!" Is the East Still Different? Raphael VagoAnti-Semitism or Judeophobia? The intellectual Debate in France 2000-2005 Denis CharbitFrom Anti-Jewish Prejudice to Political Anti-Semitism? On Dynamics of Anti-Semitism in Post-Communist Hungary A Mediterranean Bridge over Troubled Water. Cultural Ideas on How to Reconcile Israel with Its Neighbors and with Europe David OhanaThe Future of European Jewry - A Changing Condition in a Changing Context? Shmuel Trigano