To be and not to be, that is the answer. (Jews in Europe)(Moreover) From: The Economist (US) | Date: November 16, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Jews in Europe are increasingly reviving elements of ghetto life and Jewish education in an effort to preserve their culture and religion. Jews in Britain and France are discovering how to remain distinct without detaching from the larger society.

WHEN in 1885 Nathaniel Rothschild became the first practising Jew to enter the House of Lords, he is said to have slipped away from well-wishers to a synagogue in the Whitechapel ghetto of east London and prayed: "Would that this freedom ...