Abstract

The article discusses the idea of Europe within a section of European Jewry. My aim is to investigate the relationship between the Jewish identity and the perception of Europe through two interpretative guideline: Edgar Morin’s cultural one, and Gustave d’Eichthal’s institutional one. As a matter of fact, continental Jewry claims a multiple and interstitial identification with Europe, which eventually seems to coincide with a cultural and elective supranational territory that exceeds asphyxiating nationalistic identifications.