
Confronting Allosemitism in Europe
The Case of Belgian Jews
Eliezer Ben-Rafael(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 17. April 2014
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-90-04-27405-1 (ISBN)
Description
Only a few decades after the Holocaust, Belgian Jews, like most European Jewries, are under the attack of forces stemming from a variety of sources. How do they confront and stand these new hardships? Research done all over Europe from 2012 through 2013 tried to answer this question. Among the cases investigated, the Belgian Jewry is one of the most interesting. It is both versatile and representative, revealing essential components of the general experience of European Jews today. Conceptual considerations pave the way to the study of their plight that has been, by any criterion, anything but "usual". Belgian Jews, it appears, are "like" many other Jewries in Europe but "a little more". They highlight the question: is allosemitism at all surmountable?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27405-1 (9789004274051)
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Person
Eliezer Ben-Rafael is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University. His main areas of research are ethnocultural cleavages in Israel, collective identities, and sociology of languages. He has published extensively in these fields and he received the Landau Prize for his life achievements in Sociology and was President of the International Association of Sociology.
Content
Preface
PART A: PREDICAMENTS
I. A Sinuous History
2. Antisemitism and Allosemitism
3. Contemporary Perceptions and Attitudes of Europe's Jews
PART B: FACING HOSTILITY
4. A Long Story
5. The Belgian Sample
6. Social Features and Perceptions
7. Origins of Jewishness and Community
8. Religiosity and Antisemitism
PART C. THE CHALLENGE
9. Belgian Jewry Compared
10. Neo-Jewishness and Allosemitism
APPENDIX
REFERENCES
PART A: PREDICAMENTS
I. A Sinuous History
2. Antisemitism and Allosemitism
3. Contemporary Perceptions and Attitudes of Europe's Jews
PART B: FACING HOSTILITY
4. A Long Story
5. The Belgian Sample
6. Social Features and Perceptions
7. Origins of Jewishness and Community
8. Religiosity and Antisemitism
PART C. THE CHALLENGE
9. Belgian Jewry Compared
10. Neo-Jewishness and Allosemitism
APPENDIX
REFERENCES