“By the rivers of Babylon” and Elsewhere: Weeping and Recovering

The current issue of Changing Societies & Personalities is devoted to a theme having an exceptional importance for the humankind—the fate and deeds of Jewish people in various places and contexts, as well as the roots of antiSemitism, which still exists in many settings 75 years after the Auschwitz liberation. Research literature on the past and present Jewish history, as well as the phenomenon of anti-Semitism, is enormous. However, there is always room for reflection, and I hope that this issue of CS&P will contribute to the tradition of Jewish studies in various ways. I would like to introduce the current issue by quoting Hillel Levine’s1 unpublished article, which he has kindly placed at our disposal: