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Confronting Allosemitism in Europe : The Case of Belgian Jews

Leiden : BRILL, 2014

Online-Ressource (207 p)

Englisch

Contents; Preface; Part A Predicaments; Chapter 1 A Sinuous History; From the Beginning; Enlightment and Fragmentation; Contemporary Challenges; In Conclusion; Chapter 2 Antisemitism and Allosemitism; Antisemitism; Self-Hatred and Other Responses; Allosemitism; Conclusions; Chapter 3 Contemporary Perceptions and Attitudes of Europe's Jews; The Pew Research Center's Portrait of Jewish Americans; JPR and FRA's Survey; Perceptions of Antisemitism; Experiences of Harassment and Discrimination; Conclusions; Part B Facing Hostility; Chapter 4 Belgian Jews: A Long Story; Ever Since the First Clues

Belgian Jewry TodaySources of Antisemitism; Expressions of Judeophobia; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Belgian Sample; The Sample; What Jewishness Means; Belgian Identification and Perceptions of Social Reality; Perceptions of Antisemitism; Experiencing Antisemitism; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Social Features and Perceptions; The Impact of Age Differences; Education; Gender; Marital Status; In Conclusion; Chapter 7 Origins of Jewishness and Community; The Eda Dimension; The Impact of Conversion and Mixed Parenthood; The Εcological and Linguistic Divide; In Conclusion

Chapter 8 Religiosity and AntisemitismReligiosity as Differentiation; Age and Religiosity; In Conclusion; Part C The Challenge; Chapter 9 Belgian Jewry Compared; Summarizing the Data; Belgian Jewry among Europe's Jewries; What We Learn; Chapter 10 Neo-Jewishness and Allosemitism; A Personal Afterword; Appendix; 1 The Questionnaire (excerpts); 2 Conversion and Mixed Parenthood-Impacts on Jewish Religiosity and Identification; 3 Organizational Structures and Institutions of Belgium Jewry; References; Index

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Confronting Allosemitism in Europe : The Case of Belgian Jews

978-90-04-27405-1

978-90-04-27405-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 905827996     

978-90-04-27406-8 ( : 92.27 (NL))

DS146 .B4 B46 2014

305.892/40493     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Antisemitism ; Belgium ; History ; 21st century ; Jews ; Belgium ; History ; 21st century ; Electronic books

As with most European Jewries today, Belgian Jewry is attacked from many directions. How are these new hardships confronted? Research shows Belgian Jews as "like" many others but "a little more" and their plight highlights the question: is allosemitism surmountable?