Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945

by Bernard Wasserstein

Book Overview

In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become virtually extinct as a significant element in European society over the course of the twenty-first century. Now, in the first comprehensive social and political history of the experience and fate of European Jews during the last fifty years, Bernard Wasserstein sheds light on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674931998
• ISBN13: 9780674931992
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"