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Does a 'certain Jewish something'
really set Jews apart?
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Klezmer and Jewish dance expert Walter Zev Feldman leads dancers in a square in Weimar, Germany.
How to define what is "Jewish" provides endless fodder for debate in post-Holocaust, post-communist Europe. Is there, as the concept of allosemitism implies, a "certain Jewish something" that sets Jews apart?

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