This book provides the only thouroughly worldwide modern history of the Jews of the Diaspora. Wistrich has drawn together a collection of authors from the US, Europe & Israel to analyse the immense changes that have happened since 1945.

Robert S. Wistrich is the Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of London, and holds the Neuberger Chair of Modern European History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of many books and articles, including Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred (1991) and Between Redemption and Perdition (1990).

INTRODUCTION: THE POST-WAR JEWISH WORLD Part I 1 CHANGING CORES AND PERIPHERIES: FIFTY YEARS IN SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE 2 THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT OF THE HOLOCAUST 3 EMIGRATION AND ALIYAH: A REASSESSMENT OF ISRAELI AND JEWISH POLICIES 4 THE NEW JEWISH POLITICS IN AMERICA 5 THE SKILLS AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF AMERICAN JEWRY 6 MODERNIZATION, ETHNICITY AND THE POST-WAR JEWISH WORLD Part II 7 THE POLITICAL PROFILE OF AMERICAN JEWRY 8 AMERICAN JEWS AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY (1945-90) 9 SOVIET JEWRY-A COMMUNITY IN TURMOIL 10 ETHNICITY AND THE JEWISH VOTE: THE FRENCH CASE 11 JEWISH POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND VOTING PATTERNS IN ENGLAND 1945-87 12 ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE AFTER 1945 Part III 13 RELIGIOUS TRENDS AMONG AMERICAN AND ISRAELI JEWS 14 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN AMERICAN JUDAISM: THE CASE OF NATHAN GLAZER 15 PROTESTANT ATTITUDES TO JEWS AND JUDAISM DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS 16 CATHOLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR 17 THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD AND THE JEWS: THE LAST HALF-CENTURY Part IV 18 BREAKING THE MOULD: THE MATURING OF HEBREW LITERATURE 19 THE JEWISH WRITER AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 20 STATE AND REAL ESTATE: TERRITORIALITY AND THE MODERN JEWISH IMAGINATION