Jews in Eastern Europe :Ways of Assimilation

Publication subTitle :Ways of Assimilation

Author: Waldemar Szczerbiński   Katarzyna Kornacka-Sareło  

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781443887786

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781443885232

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Keyword: Cultural Studies

Language: ENG

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Description

The problem of being a stranger is present in every culture. In this context, “the Jewish question” is often discussed, since the Jews have been present in other nations for centuries, constituting the social and cultural minority and being almost always perceived as strangers. This volume presents a detailed analysis of Jewish self-perceptions and attitudes, often very complex, towards other societies and communities living in the same lands.

The contributors to this book explore the lengthy discussions between both the supporters and adversaries of assimilation within the Jewish environment and also between the assimilated Jews and non-Jews, which often further complicate this issue. As the authors show here, the “methods of assimilation” of eastern European Jews were not straightforward, but were rather often rather complicated and rough. Many Jewish people were trying to find the best solution to their own, “Jewish question”, and adapt themselves reasonably to the gentile environment and to the changing realities of the world in which they had to exist, regardless of their will, or in which they freely chose to live having made autonomic and personal decisions. As such, this volume explores Jewish assimilation issues from a wide and multifaceted perspective.

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