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Article: Why the Jews of Europe are still disappearing
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1996
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VANISHING DIASPORA
The Jews in Europe since 1945.
By Bernard Wasserstein. Harvard University Press. 323 pp.
$27.95.
Ethan Bronner is the Globe's Middle East bureau chief.
It would be hard to imagine the history of Europe in the 20th
century without the Jews. It would certainly be a very different and
impoverished narrative. In most key political and intellectual
movements, the Jews were there -- either as champions of an idea, or
its victims. They were at the center of the century's most
heinous crime, the Nazi Holocaust, which exterminated 6 million of
their number. The century's struggles and sensibilities would have
been altered immeasurably without communism or ...