‘Communities and Jewish Identity in Europe’, Transcript of First Plenary of the Third General Assembly of European Jewry, Budapest 20-23 May 2004.
The European Jewish reality today confounds predictions of decline with demographic decline. We can see that predictions of Jewish decline don't mean that the data was wrong, but rather the interpretation of the data on Jewish life was wrong. To look at the inevitably flawed data and not see trend...
| Published in: | European Judaism Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 99 - 115 |
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Berghahn Books
Autumn 2005
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