
Confronting Allosemitism in Europe : The Case of Belgian Jews.
Title:
Confronting Allosemitism in Europe : The Case of Belgian Jews.
Author:
Ben-Rafael, Eliezer.
ISBN:
9789004274068
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Series:
Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; v.21
Jewish Identities in a Changing World
Contents:
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 Today -- Sources 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 Antisemitism -- Religiosity 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.
Abstract:
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?.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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