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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.
Contents
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
