DAVID WEINBERG's scientific contributions

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This essay traces the development of European Jewish consciousness from its earliest formulations in the immediate post-war era to its culmination in the editorials and sponsored colloquia of the journal European Judaism in the 1960s and 1970s. Special emphasis is placed on the emergence of the perception of European Judaism as a ‘third way’ betwee...

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... Three options were on the table: the United States of America, with its large and prosperous Jewish community, undamaged by the war, with a newly earned self-confidence; the Yishuvthe emerging Jewish state in Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) still under British rule and fighting for unrestricted aliyah (Jewish emigration to Palestine); or the reestablished Jewish European communities, especially those with a relatively large population: France and Poland (until the Kielce pogrom of 1946). 2 The immediate postwar years were characterized by lack of stability. Hundreds and thousands of Jews, mainly in the DP camps, were looking for a place to build their new lives. ...