Keywords

• Group identity is not necessarily tied to regional or national borders
• even if it needs a home base to define itself. The years in which Theodor Herzl reclaimed a country in Palestine for the Jewish people
• non-assimilated Jews in Europe reconstruct their own ethno-religious identity looking to the places of Eastern Chassidism: the Shtetl
• the Jewish cities of Eastern Europe. This essay shows how several authors
• two Jews
• Roth and Singer and a French journalist
• Londres
• have approached the Jewish Diaspora in Europe and
• later
• the tragedy of the Holocaust in relation to the problem of a "new" Jewish identity by going back to the facts or
• ideally
• to the symbolic place of Jewish identity in Europe
• the Shtetl