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"identitet" evropskih Židova
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Europe’s Jews still chasing an elusive collective identity
By Ruth Ellen Gruber · July 8, 2012
BUDAPEST (JTA) – Is there such a thing as a European Jewish identity? Can such an identity be created? What clout can European Jewry wield in global Jewish affairs?
Da li postoji nešto što je Evropski židovski identitet? Kako se takav identitet može stvoriti? što može evropsko židovstvo okupiti u globalnim židovskim pitanjima.
Židovski vođe su raspravljali ta pitanja još od pada komunizma u ranim 90-tim godinama što je tada izbrisalo istočno-zapadne granice
i otvorilo put za novo poglavlje Židova u Evropi.
Neki stratezi smatraju da se od tada
stvara evropski židovski identitet koji je važan za ostvarenje političkog cilja da se evropsko židovstvo načini "trećim stupom" ili ravnopravnim igračem sa Židovima u Izraelu i Sjevernoj Americi.
Francuski Židovi su vrlo francuski, Židovi u UK su vrlo britanski, a istočno- evropski Židovi imaju mnogo izazova u posljednje dvije dekade da uspostave "Židovski život". Ali proces, koji mi također vidimo, je da su oni također u svojoj politici i pogledima bliski sa svojim vladama.. rekao je Rabin Andrew Baker , direktor International Jewish Affaires u
Americi.
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Or, as put byBarry Kosmin, who recently directed a survey of European Jewish leaders for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s International Center for Community Development, “We have aspirations versus reality.” T
he survey polled 328 “Jewish leaders and opinion formers” in 32 countries, and as far as Europe was concerned, it demonstrated a dramatic gap between theory and practice...
Baker,
..said the lack of success was due to a combination of factors.
Changed realities in the global arena, of course, played a major role: among them the
collapse of the Middle East peace process, the second intifada, the rise of Islamic extremism andspikes in anti-Semitism largely linked to growing Arab and Muslim communities in Europe...
“Most European Jewish communities today face significant security concerns that no one imagined at the time of our conferences in the
1990s,” he said. Ironically, he added, “Today it is the need to confront common concerns and threats -- anti-Semitism and anti-Israel campaigns primarily -- that serves as the basis for pan-European and pan-Diaspora cooperation.”
“We are living in a time of multiple and shifting identities,” said Mario Izcovich, director of pan-European programs at the JDC. “It is not a fixed picture; people don’t seem to want to belong to anything permanently.” “It simply cannot be that political issues regarding Jews can be discussed just by Israel and the U.S.,” Izcovich said....
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