United in Diversity – An Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary European Jewry and its Reflection

Research: Olaf Glöckner, in cooperation with the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature (Charles University Prague), the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry (Tel Aviv University) and the Comenius University Bratislava (Institute for History).
Duration: 2018-2022
Funding: EU-Programm Erasmus Plus

This interdisciplinary, international study examines at the interface of contemporary history and the present how the relationships between Jews and non-Jews are being redesigned in various countries in Central and East Central Europe, especially in metropolitan areas. The changing history of Christian-Jewish relationships is examined, as is the processing of the Second World War and the Shoah in art and literature. The empirical part, which is methodologically based on the evaluation of narrative and problem-focused interviews among Jews and non-Jews in five different countries (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Germany), focuses on intercultural perceptions, Jewish participation in social modernization processes, Israel-Diaspora bindings and collective identity courses within and outside of religious communities.