The Jews are coming back : the return of the Jews to their countries of origin after WW II / edited by David Bankier.

Papers from an international conference held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, in May 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Return to a vanished world : European societies and the remnants of their Jewish communities, 1945-1947 / Pieter Lagrou -- French apprehensions, Jewish expectations : from a social imaginary to a political practice / Renée Poznanski -- The return of Jews in the nationality or in the territory of France (1943-1973) / Patrick Weil -- The reintegration of Jewish survivors into Belgian society, 1943-1947 / Frank Caestecker -- Bitter homecoming : the return and reception of Dutch and stateless Jews in the Netherlands / Dienke Hondius -- Revolution and reconstruction : Dutch Jewry after the Holocaust / Conny Kristel -- The abrogation of racial laws and the reintegration of Jews in Italian society (1943-1948) / Mario Toscano -- The written memoir : Italy 1945-1947 / Manuela Consonni -- The reconstruction of Jewish communities in the USSR, 1944-1947 / Yaacov Ro'i -- The Holocaust and its aftermath as perceived in Poland : voices of Polish intellectuals, 1945-1947 / Joanna Michlic -- "The new Jewish invasion" : the return of the survivors from Transnistria / Jean Ancel -- Reconstruction efforts in hostile surroundings : Slovaks and Jews after World War II / Yehoshua R. Büchler -- Different interpretations of reconstruction : the AJDC and the WJC in Hungary after the Holocaust / Kinga Frojimovics -- "Shylock is whetting his blade" : fear of the Jews' revenge in Hungary during World War II / László Karsai.