Date
1948CE
1948–1995
Poland, Romania, France, and Germany rebuilt very unequal Jewish presences, between the sale of Jews, North African migration, and virtual Judaism.
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10 statements
01Evidence and context
In 1968 an antisemitic campaign in Poland led about 20,000 Jews to emigrate, mostly to Israel, by 1970.
Each summer the Cracow Jewish Festival fills the old Jewish quarter. No similar gathering in Europe is bigger.
Between late 1949 and the close of 1989, Romania sold nearly 300,000 Jews to Israel for hard currency, above all under Nicolae Ceausescu.
Chief rabbi Moses Rosen persuaded the regime that treating Jews well would bring public opinion, trade, and political sympathies.
The book describes contemporary East-Central Europe as a setting of virtual Judaism, surrounded by kitsch.
In 1995 Jacques Chirac stated, in an official capacity, that France bore guilt for how Jews were treated under Vichy.
With over 500,000 Jews, more than half in Paris, France is home to the world's third-largest Jewish community.
In 1962 nearly every Jew in Algeria moved to France. A large share of the 220,000 North Africans who came were already French citizens.
Jacques Derrida, born in Algeria in 1930 into a Jewish family, introduced deconstruction. Emmanuel Levinas, born in Lithuania, placed the other at the center of ethics.
In July 1948 the World Jewish Congress cautioned Jews against settling again on German soil soaked with blood.
Context
In 1968 an antisemitic campaign in Poland led about 20,000 Jews to emigrate, mostly to Israel, by 1970.
Each summer the Cracow Jewish Festival fills the old Jewish quarter. No similar gathering in Europe is bigger.
Chief rabbi Moses Rosen persuaded the regime that treating Jews well would bring public opinion, trade, and political sympathies.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Bernard Wasserstein, Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
Jews in Europe since 1945 · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517
Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims From North Africa to France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).
North African Jews and Muslims in France · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 517
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 500inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 499inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 498inspect
- 04Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 498inspect
- 05Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 499inspect
- 06Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 500inspect
- 07Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 500inspect
- 08Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 500inspect
- 09Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 501inspect
- 10Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 502inspect
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