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The Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea-CDEC of Milan recently published the 17th issue of \u201cQuest. Issues in Jewish Contemporary History\u201d, its online journal. It is a monographic issue dedicated to the idea of Europe as seen by that vast cultural world that used to express itself in Yiddish. As the curator Marion Aptroot recalls in her introduction titled \u201cThinking Europe in Yiddish\u201d, \u201cOn the eve of the Second World War, there were, roughly, eleven million speakers of Yiddish in the world. That may not seem a large number to speakers of German or English, but it was, at the time, more than the number of speakers of all the Scandinavian languages combined\u201d.\nAs the director of CDEC Gadi Luzzatto Voghera points out, \u201cWe are talking about an important cultural reality, physically exterminated before the idea of \u200b\u200bthe political construction of a European space could materialize. However, it is a reality that today’s Europe cannot fail to deal with. This necessity prompted the authors of the essays published in Quest to search \u2013 from different perspectives the traces of the representations that Europe made of the multiform figures that animated Yiddish culture in the first half of the twentieth century, with incursions also into the previous century\u201d.<\/p>\n