Foreword by Yossi Klein Halevi

Preface: A Jew-Free Europe

Jonathas’ Story
Walking on History
Culture Shocks
History Doesn’t Change – Only Our Interpretation Does
The Dutch Synagogue in the Belgian Shtetl
Learning from the Past
In the Shadow of the Shoah
A History of Tears or Resilience?
Medieval Anti-Judaism
Christ-Killers Past and Present
The Story That Never Dies
The Jewish Badge in Renaissance Italy
Wake up, Flora!
Getting Slapped by Both Wings
Teaching about Hate
Monuments in the Present
Anti-Judaism in the West
Two Women in Antwerp
When Spain and Portugal Expelled Beatrice (1492 and 1497)
Inquisition
From Lisbon to Antwerp
Beatrice’s Story
Hidden Identities, Double Selves
Pola’s Antwerp
The Belgian Exodus
Life under Nazi Occupation
A Wartime Marriage
The Lemon on My Seder Plate
Looking Jewish
Crossing the Pyrenees Mountains
Arrested
In the Congo
A New Life
Becoming Colonists
Exile, Not Home
Meanwhile Back Home
Friendships
The Histories I Carry
Holding the Contradictions
Tell Me about Mala
No One Saw Him Die
Mala’s Escape
In Mala’s Broken House
A House Built on Shaky Foundations
Marching to the Past
Maybe It’s Better to Forget?
I Was 20 in 1945
Everyone Learned the Lessons of the Holocaust Except…
An Old Christian Reproach
Like the Cross at Auschwitz
The Backlash Years
The Price and Politics of Memory
Pink, Fat, and Wealthy Jews
Jews and Money: An Old Myth
Don’t Touch our Carnival
The Jewish Soccer Team
Who?
Hannah and Irene
To Stay or Go?
Why Not There?
Jewish Women Protesting
In My Classroom
Definitions, Definitions…
October Seven
Loneliness
A Verbal Ghetto
Gaza
Zionist and Anti-War
Could I Come up with Better Words?
Replacism and Eliminationism
The Myth of Elimination as Justice
A Christian Transfer of Guilt
A Replacist and an Eliminationist Meet in a Bar
Which Past in Our Future
Not the Holocaust but the Middle Ages
Court Jews
Protection or Rights?
The Personal is Political
What I Learned from a Disappeared Suitcase
Who Stole the Carps?

Acknowledgments