{"title":"Flora Cassen","description":"Flora Cassen is the Lavine Family Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness at Brandeis University. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.","products":[{"product_id":"stained-glass-a-reflective-history-of-antisemitism-paperback","title":"Stained Glass: A Reflective History of Antisemitism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStained Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, Flora Cassen traces a Jewish life shaped by family and history, moving between medieval Europe and the present to connect lived experience with the longer arc of Jewish history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her upbringing in Antwerp's Jewish community and her grandparents' escape from Nazi-occupied Europe to the Belgian Congo, Cassen writes from within a past in which powerlessness rubbed shoulders with power. From her later life in the United States, she considers Jewish life in Europe as a mirror that reflects enduring questions about vulnerability and belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStained Glass\u003c\/em\u003e asks what it means to leave Europe behind and to encounter in American Jewish life a vitality that is strikingly beautiful yet never fully settled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51304510030047,"sku":"9781487557898","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7Avz7jaRoj9781487557898.webp?v=1788209524"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/flora-cassen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}