Glorious, accursed Europe : an essay on Jewish ambivalence / Jehuda Reinharz, Yaacov Shavit ; Michelle Engel, translator.

"This book is a revised version of the Hebrew edition, which originally appeared as Eropah hamehulelet vehamekulelet (Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers), 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-290) and index.

Europe discovers itself, Jews discover Europe -- The glorious nineteenth century: Europe as promised land -- The accursed century: Europe as an ailing culture -- The emergence of the modern European Jew -- Antisemitism as an incurable European disease -- Old Europe or New Europe? -- Manifold Europes -- I am in the East, and my heart is in the West -- Europeanness and anti-Europeanness in Palestine -- Europe, Old or New? -- Between "real Europe" and the "European spirit."

Translated from the Hebrew.