Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe

Providing an assessment of Jewish identity, this volume presents critical engagements with a number of Jewish writers and filmmakers from a variety of European countries. The novels and films discussed explore the meaning of being Jewish in Europe today, and investigate the extent how this experience is shaped by factors that lie outside the national context, notably by the relationship to Israel. As the recent attacks on Charlie Hebdo, and the targeting of a Jewish supermarket in Paris, demonstrate, these questions are more pressing than ever, and will challenge Jews as well as Jewish writers and intellectuals. This book was published as a special issue of Jewish Culture and History.