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November 2, 2021

Europe Will Miss Its Jews Not as Participants in Its Culture, but as Convenient Scapegoats

It’s possible to be a Muslim-American or a Jewish-American, but not a Swedish Jew.

In 2013, Annika Hernroth-Rothstein contributed to a Mosaic symposium on the precarious situation of European Jewry, writing of her native Sweden that “the only way to survive as a Jew in my country is not to be seen as one.” Over the course of the next two years, she wrote three additional articles for Mosaic on the worsening situation there. She now revisits the question of whether Jews have a future in Europe after a recent visit to London, and is more pessimistic than ever:

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