As with most European Jewries today, Belgian Jewry is attacked from many directions. How are these new hardships confronted? Research shows Belgian Jews as "like" many others but "a little more" and their plight highlights the question: is allosemitism surmountable?

Eliezer Ben-Rafael is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University. His main areas of research are ethnocultural cleavages in Israel, collective identities, and sociology of languages. He has published extensively in these fields and he received the Landau Prize for his life achievements in Sociology and was President of the International Association of Sociology.