There are two different types of results achieved by this project: outputs and outcomes. The most significant intellectual output is a (1) collective monograph (see below). This result is based on extensive research fieldwork, i.e., (2) data collection and analysis in several different European countries, representing the second output. The third output is a new virtual platform, (3) this website.
Among the results of the project will also be listed as the intangible ones. – The outcomes include increased knowledge and improved abilities in the given field due to mutual learning and sharing each other’s views and experiences. A raised socio-cultural awareness, which is simultaneously one of the project’s main priorities, might also certainly be considered an added value. These outcomes have been mainly developed during the Transnational project meetings and a Multiplier event – a conference.
The collective monograph’s basic information:
1. Title of the book
‘United in Diversity’: An Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary European Jewry and its Reflection
Publisher House:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, Germany – Under the contract.
Publishing in the Series Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge, 2022.
ISBN 978-3-11-078310-0
Editors: Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Olaf Glöckner
Open Access granted.
2. Book content
Introduction
Editors
I. A New Era? Christian-Jewish Relations in Post-Cold War Europe
Dina Porat
II. Trivialization of the Holocaust? The Elements of Pop Culture in Holocaust Fiction and Film
Jiří Holý
III. A New Relation in the Making? Jews and non-Jews in Germany Reflecting Shoah Memory, Unexpected Growing Jewish Pluralism, Israel and New Antisemitism
Olaf Glöckner
IV. Jews as “the pioneers of the postmodern condition”: the Ambivalence, Dilemmas, and Aporias of Contemporary Czech Jewish Lived Experience
Marcela Menachem Zoufalá
V. Perceptions of the Holocaust in Slovak Historiography and among the General Public after the Establishment of the Slovak Republic in 1993
Eduard Nižňanský and Katarína Bohová
VI. Jewish Experiences and New Encounters in Present Slovakia
Olaf Glöckner
VII. Feeling ‘At Home’ or Just Privileged Minorities? Perceptions of Jewish and non-Jewish Respondents in Contemporary Budapest
Lilach Lev Ari
VIII. Jews in Poland: Between Cultural-religious Renewal and New Uncertainties
Olaf Glöckner, Marcela Menachem Zoufalá
IX. A ‘Jewish Problem’ or a ‘Society Problem’? Understanding Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe from Jewish and Governmental perspectives
Haim Fireberg
3. Short Abstract
What are the future perspectives for Jews and Jewish networks in contemporary Europe? Is there a new quality of relations between Jews and non-Jews, despite or precisely because of the Holocaust trauma? How is the memory of the extermination of 6 million European Jews reflected in memorial events and literature, film, drama, and visual arts media? To what degree do European Jews feel as integrated people, as Europeans per see, and as safe citizens? An interdisciplinary team of historians, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and literary theorists answers these questions for Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland. They show that the Holocaust has become an enduring topic in public among Jews and non-Jews. However, Jews in Europe work self-confidently on their future on the “old continent,” new alliances, and in cooperation with a broad network of civil forces. Non-Jewish interest in Jewish history and the present has significantly increased over decades, and networks combatting anti-Semitism have strengthened.
