Reflections of a Veteran Pessimist: Contemplating Modern Europe, Russia, and Jewish History
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Europe in Decline (But Not Yet Finished) -- Europe-Th e Years Ahead -- Better Fifty Years of Europe than a Cycle of Cathay (Locksley Hall) -- No Abyss, No Apocalypse -- Islamic Fascism, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism: A Postscript -- Lessons from Oslo -- The Refugees are Coming -- Muslims in Europe -- "An Anxious Continent" Spiegel Interview, July 26, 2013 -- Chapter 2: Jews in the Twentieth Century -- Degenerate Art and the Jewish Grandmother -- The Terrible Secret: A Second Look -- Love in the Shadow of Death -- The Scholems -- On Russian Jewry Today -- Timothy Snyder: Th e Newton of the Holocaust? -- The Walter Benjamin Brigade -- Hitler's Jews: Max von Oppenheim and the Myth of German Jewish Guilt -- Oppenheim Biographer Lionel Gossman Responds to Walter Laqueur's Review -- Chapter 3: Russia after the Soviet Union -- Détente Plus? How Should the West Deal with Russia? -- The Russian Enigma: Is the Bear Turning East? -- Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea -- Confabulation? -- Russian Nationalism: Going Back to the Roots -- The Russian Party under the Soviets -- Central Asia-Toward 2050 -- Toward a New Russian Ideology -- Author's Postscript -- Chapter 4: Observations -- Cyber Warfare -- Nazi Germany: Secret Reports? -- Who Needs Geography? -- Luethy and Brecht: Martyrdom in Hollywood -- Megaloglossa -- Old Age -- A Historical Education: A Wanderer between Several Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography.