In Stained Glass, Flora Cassen offers a deeply personal and intellectually rich exploration of Jewish life in Europe, from the shadows of the medieval past to the aftermath of the Holocaust and into the present. Blending memoir, family history, and historical analysis, she illuminates how old myths and prejudices about Jews continue to shape Jewish identity today. Drawing from her upbringing in Antwerp's Jewish community and her later life in America, Cassen weaves together historical events, family narratives, and contemporary challenges to paint a vivid portrait of Jewish experience in…mehr
In Stained Glass, Flora Cassen offers a deeply personal and intellectually rich exploration of Jewish life in Europe, from the shadows of the medieval past to the aftermath of the Holocaust and into the present. Blending memoir, family history, and historical analysis, she illuminates how old myths and prejudices about Jews continue to shape Jewish identity today. Drawing from her upbringing in Antwerp's Jewish community and her later life in America, Cassen weaves together historical events, family narratives, and contemporary challenges to paint a vivid portrait of Jewish experience in modern Europe. At once intimate and analytical, she reflects on childhood fears of being identified as Jewish, connecting these anxieties to the trauma of historical persecution and the Holocaust. The book also offers a comparative analysis of Jewish life in Europe and America, highlighting the vibrancy of American Judaism while acknowledging rising concerns about antisemitism in the United States. By juxtaposing these experiences, Stained Glass invites readers to reflect on the future of Jewish communities in a world that is increasingly fractured and uncertain.
Flora Cassen is senior faculty at the Hartman Institute and an associate professor of history and Jewish studies at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Foreword by Yossi Klein Halevi Preface: A Jew-Free Europe Jonathas’ Story Walking on History Culture Shocks History Doesn’t Change – Only Our Interpretation Does The Dutch Synagogue in the Belgian Shtetl Learning from the Past In the Shadow of the Shoah A History of Tears or Resilience? Medieval Anti-Judaism Christ-Killers Past and Present The Story That Never Dies The Jewish Badge in Renaissance Italy Wake up, Flora! Getting Slapped by Both Wings Teaching about Hate Monuments in the Present Anti-Judaism in the West Two Women in Antwerp When Spain and Portugal Expelled Beatrice (1492 and 1497) Inquisition From Lisbon to Antwerp Beatrice’s Story Hidden Identities, Double Selves Pola’s Antwerp The Belgian Exodus Life under Nazi Occupation A Wartime Marriage The Lemon on My Seder Plate Looking Jewish Crossing the Pyrenees Mountains Arrested In the Congo A New Life Becoming Colonists Exile, Not Home Meanwhile Back Home Friendships The Histories I Carry Holding the Contradictions Tell Me about Mala No One Saw Him Die Mala’s Escape In Mala’s Broken House A House Built on Shaky Foundations Marching to the Past Maybe It’s Better to Forget? I Was 20 in 1945 Everyone Learned the Lessons of the Holocaust Except… An Old Christian Reproach Like the Cross at Auschwitz The Backlash Years The Price and Politics of Memory Pink, Fat, and Wealthy Jews Jews and Money: An Old Myth Don’t Touch our Carnival The Jewish Soccer Team Who? Hannah and Irene To Stay or Go? Why Not There? Jewish Women Protesting In My Classroom Definitions, Definitions… October Seven Loneliness A Verbal Ghetto Gaza Zionist and Anti-War Could I Come up with Better Words? Replacism and Eliminationism The Myth of Elimination as Justice A Christian Transfer of Guilt A Replacist and an Eliminationist Meet in a Bar Which Past in Our Future Not the Holocaust but the Middle Ages Court Jews Protection or Rights? The Personal is Political What I Learned from a Disappeared Suitcase Who Stole the Carps? Acknowledgments
Foreword by Yossi Klein Halevi Preface: A Jew-Free Europe Jonathas’ Story Walking on History Culture Shocks History Doesn’t Change – Only Our Interpretation Does The Dutch Synagogue in the Belgian Shtetl Learning from the Past In the Shadow of the Shoah A History of Tears or Resilience? Medieval Anti-Judaism Christ-Killers Past and Present The Story That Never Dies The Jewish Badge in Renaissance Italy Wake up, Flora! Getting Slapped by Both Wings Teaching about Hate Monuments in the Present Anti-Judaism in the West Two Women in Antwerp When Spain and Portugal Expelled Beatrice (1492 and 1497) Inquisition From Lisbon to Antwerp Beatrice’s Story Hidden Identities, Double Selves Pola’s Antwerp The Belgian Exodus Life under Nazi Occupation A Wartime Marriage The Lemon on My Seder Plate Looking Jewish Crossing the Pyrenees Mountains Arrested In the Congo A New Life Becoming Colonists Exile, Not Home Meanwhile Back Home Friendships The Histories I Carry Holding the Contradictions Tell Me about Mala No One Saw Him Die Mala’s Escape In Mala’s Broken House A House Built on Shaky Foundations Marching to the Past Maybe It’s Better to Forget? I Was 20 in 1945 Everyone Learned the Lessons of the Holocaust Except… An Old Christian Reproach Like the Cross at Auschwitz The Backlash Years The Price and Politics of Memory Pink, Fat, and Wealthy Jews Jews and Money: An Old Myth Don’t Touch our Carnival The Jewish Soccer Team Who? Hannah and Irene To Stay or Go? Why Not There? Jewish Women Protesting In My Classroom Definitions, Definitions… October Seven Loneliness A Verbal Ghetto Gaza Zionist and Anti-War Could I Come up with Better Words? Replacism and Eliminationism The Myth of Elimination as Justice A Christian Transfer of Guilt A Replacist and an Eliminationist Meet in a Bar Which Past in Our Future Not the Holocaust but the Middle Ages Court Jews Protection or Rights? The Personal is Political What I Learned from a Disappeared Suitcase Who Stole the Carps? Acknowledgments
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