By Jewish News One

The Jewish Studies Institute at Frankfurt University is hosting a three-day international conference where experts from many countries, and a variety of academic fields, examine the Jewish Diaspora and the historic and cultural connections between Jewish communities around the world.

 Institut za židovske studije Univerziteta u  Frankfurtu ( Jewish Studies Institute)  bio je domaćin trodnevne konferencije na kojoj su eksperti iz mnogih zemalja i raznih akademskih područja, istraživali židovsku dijasporu  te  povijesne i kulturne veze između židovskih zajednica širom svijeta.

"Mi imamo učesnike  iz USA, iz Izraela, one koji su ortodoksni, imamo čak i one koji uopće nisu Židovi , no svi su ovdje zainteresirani i svaki je donio  svoj vlastiti "pogled"- rekla je Elisabeth Hollender sa Univerziteta u Frankfurtu

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...... According to Ephraim Kanarfogel of New York's Yeshiva University, "It is possible in the United States to not only to be a good American citizen but to be a very good student and practitioner of Judaism, and the basic ideas of Judaism, the basic history of Judaism, I think it's a tremendous unifier."..

"In Spain," says Esperanza Alfonso of the Spanish National Research Council, "there was a very Spanish National Research Council long presence of Judaism in the Christian kingdoms of the Peninsula and also in the Peninsula under Islamic control, and there is a legacy, a huge Jewish legacy in the Peninsula which is manifested in many ways, in the material culture that the Jews left there, in the synagogues that are still in the country now days, and in many ways in which the Jews influenced the Spanish culture."

...With the establishment of the State of Israel, most of the Jewish Diaspora reacted to this challenge by adopting a position of supporting the new state while maintaining primary loyalty to their home country.

..."We, living in the Diaspora," says Shlomo Berger, "we have certainly a role in the connection of Jews with the world of the non-Jews so to speak, maybe even a bigger role than Israel because we have a double role in fact, the Diaspora vis-a-vis Israel which is the center of Judaism, but we in the Diaspora must also operate vis-a-vis the non-Jewish society."

...With Jewish communities now present in 75 countries, Jewish identity and Jewish culture are beginning to play an increasingly larger role in a globalized, multicultural world.

Thursday, November 15, 2012.