The Jewish Contribution to European Integration
This first-of-its-kind edited collection examines the role that Jewish history, values, and individuals played in inspiring and promoting the European integration process.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Lanham : Lexington Books,
2019
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Europe and the World
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| Sujets: | Judaism Jews Jews-Europe-History Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Résumé: | This first-of-its-kind edited collection examines the role that Jewish history, values, and individuals played in inspiring and promoting the European integration process. Cover -- The Jewish Contribution to European Integration -- Series page -- The Jewish Contribution to European Integration -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Jews as the Principal Cosmopolitan, Integrating Element in European Integration -- Normative Power Europe Meets the Jewish "Light Unto the Nations" Mission -- Bibliography -- Part I: Present Challenges -- Chapter 2 -- Jews in Europe, 2019 -- Europe's Jewish Population: Historical Survey -- Population Changes since World War II -- European Jewish Migrations and Émigrés -- Variable Jewish Population Definitions and Estimates -- Regional Development and the Jewish Presence -- Jews: the Dependent Variable -- Jews in Cities -- Family Patterns and Demographic Transitions -- Some Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- European Populism and Minorities -- What is Populism? -- Exclusionary Populism and Minorities -- European Exclusionary Populism and Colonialism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Anti-Semitism from a European Union Institutional Perspective -- European Union Institutions and Antisemitism -- EU Institutions to Consider and Examine -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Part II: Jews and Pan-European Identity -- Chapter 5 -- The Cultural Dimension of Jewish European Identity -- The European Jewish Renewal: Roots and Configuration -- Jews and the European Idea: Past, Present, and Future -- Between Assimilation and Distinctiveness -- Developments that Could Pose a Threat to the Future Prosperity of Jewish Life in Europe -- Celebrating Jewish Culture while Desecrating Jewish Communal Life? -- Existing Strategies of European Jews and Their Identity Implications -- The Limits of the Contemporary European Jewish Identity Profiles -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 -- A Union of Minorities. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781793603203 1793603200 9781793603197 1793603197 |