Jewish Studies and the European Academic World

Plenary Lectures Read at the VIIth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Amsterdam, July 2002

edited by A. van der Heide and I.E. Zwiep

Book cover: Jewish Studies and the European Academic World

Extent: 164 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Social Sciences 

Series: Collection de la Revue des Études Juives

Series volume number: 37

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2005)

ISBN: 9789042916166

Price: $82.00

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Is there such a thing as a ‘European academic world’? The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) operates on the principle that there is, and this volume is an attempt to present the facts on which this conviction is based. The eight plenary lectures delivered at the EAJS Congress of 2002 all dealt with the past, present and, in some measure, future of Jewish Studies as they developed in Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Eastern Europe and Russia, and the United Kingdom: a pan-European perspective concludes the whole. At the opening ceremony of the congress, in the Esnoga (Portuguese Synagogue) of Amsterdam, two further addresses were held, which both illustrate the firm rootedness of European Jewish culture in its European surroundings, as exemplified by the history and culture of the Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish community.

  • Edited by A van der Heide
  • Edited by IE Zwiep