1. The book both opens and closes with Passover. What is the significance of this holiday to this story?

2. What has been the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations of European Jews? How does this differ from the impact on subsequent generations of American Jews?

3. Was it reasonable for Jews to return after the war to the countries where they had been betrayed?

4. After the fall of Communism, very few Jews were left in Eastern Europe who had any experience with the practice of the religion. What does it mean to rebuild a Jewish community with secular Jews?

5. Explain the difference in motivation between those Jews who returned to East Germany and those who returned to West Germany after the war.

6. Should the Zionists who returned to postwar Europe have gone to Israel instead?

7. Would it have been easier to rebuild a religious community or an assimilated community in postwar Europe?

8. Has European Jewry since 1945 undergone a resurrection, as implied in the subtitle of this book, or is it something less than that?

9. What impact has the state of Israel had on European Jews?

10. What does it mean for American Jews that these communities in Europe still exist?

11. Throughout European history, France was always thought of as a haven for Jews, until the twentieth century. As the country with the largest Jewish population in Europe, will it be a haven or a dangerous place for Jews going forward into the twenty-first century?

12. Why is the survival of European Jewry so crucial to the Jewish people throughout the rest of the world?

13. In countries with some of the worst records of treatment of Jews, it has become fashionable to embrace everything Jewish. Is this philo-Semitism another form of anti-Semitism, and is it dangerous?

14. Three million Polish Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and most of those who returned were subsequently driven out. In the current political climate of Poland, is there a future for Jews, and are there enough to build a real community?

15. Why do survivors in Holland appear to be in more pain than in most other countries? Is it because Holland never came to terms with its war history? Is it that as a society, Holland is more open to discussing psychological problems than other countries in Europe?

16. What has the impact of terrorism been on Jewish communities in Europe?

17. Russian Jews have been immigrating to Western Europe, especially Germany, most of them with very little knowledge of Judaism. What will be their impact?

18. What has been the role of the Hasidic movement in modern European Judaism?

19. Following the Six-Day War, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and even deGaulleÕs France shifted their policies toward Israel. What was the impact on European Jewry?

20. Are the communities described in this book merely vestigial or is there a future for Jewry in Europe?