The Jews of Europe in the Modern Era
A Socio-Historical Outline
Victor Karady is senior research director with
the French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research)
in Paris; recurrent professor at the Central European
University in Budapest
Discusses the socio-historical problem areas related
to the presence of Jews in major European societies
from the 18th century to our days; differently from
most other studies, covers the post-Shoah situation
also. The approach is multi-disciplinary, mobilizing
resources gained from sociology, demography and political
science, based on substantial statistical information.
Presents and compares the different patterns of Jewish
policies of the emerging nation states and established
empires. Discusses education and socio-professional
stratification of Jews. Deals with the challenges of
emancipation and assimilation, the emergence of Jewish
nationalism in various forms, Zionism above all, as
well as antisemitic ideologies. The book ends with a
scrutiny of post-Shoah situation opposing in this regard
Western Europe to the Sovietised East, discussing finally
strategies of dissimulation or reconstruction of Jewish
identity.
Contents
Foreword Introduction Chapter I European Jews
from the antiquity to the 18th century. Chapter II
Demographic history of present day Jewry Chapter
III Jews and nation states Chapter IV Social
stratification and modernization Chapter V Jewish
identity and the paradoxes of assimilation Chapter
VI The crisi of assimilation and Jewish nationalism
Chapter VII Theory and practice of modern antisemitism
Chapter VIII The Shoa Chapter IX After 1945 Bibliography
Index of names and subjects
2004
494 pages
ISBN 978-963-9241-52-7 Cloth $49.95 / €42.95 / £33.00
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