Faire de l’Europe un centre du judaïsme au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Rêves et réalités

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Inspired by the urgent demand to provide culture for surviving European Jewry as well as by the mission of the nascent Unesco to foster transnational and intercultural cooperation, collaboration and exchange, a number of proposals to establish new, transnational Jewish cultural institutions in Europe emerged within Jewish intellectual circles in the immediate aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. Unesco’s dedication to reconstructing, preserving and developing cultural rights and institutions in war-devastated Europe and beyond created a framework in which such dreams of international Jewish cultural exchange emerging out of postwar Jewish Europe was not only possible, but essential to reconstituting a forward-looking and tolerant Europe. Ultimately, however, such dreams were subsumed by a reality in which the postwar focus turned increasingly to supporting the new centers of Jewish life, outside of Europe.