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1 online resource |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between / Gitelman, Zvi -- Part I. Demography: Who Are the Migrants and Where Have They Gone? -- 1. Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora / Tolts, Mark -- 2. The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America: Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel / Rebhun, Uzi -- 3. Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine / Sapritsky, Marina -- Part II. Transnationalism and Diasporas -- 4. Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU / Dekel-Chen, Jonathan -- 5. Diaspora from the Inside Out: Litvaks in Lithuania Today / Pollin-Galay, Hannah -- 6. Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations / Gold, Steven J. -- Part III. Political and Economic Change -- 7. Political Newborns: Immigrants in Israel and Germany / Bagno-Moldavski, Olena -- 8. The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel: A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity? / Ro'i, Yaacov -- 9. The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel / Ofer, Gur -- Part IV. Resocialization and the Malleability of Ethnicity -- 10. Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany / Ben-Rafael, Eliezer -- 11. Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany / Roberman, Sveta -- 12. Inventing a "New Jew": The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia / Nosenko-Stein, Elena -- Part V. Migration and Religious Change -- 13. Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity: Beyond the Israeli National Religion / Elias, Nelly / Lerner, Julia -- 14. Virtual Village in a Real World: The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online / Shternshis, Anna -- Part VI. Diaspora Russian Literature -- 15. Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation: Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldshtein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky / Krutikov, Mikhail -- 16. Poets and Poetry in Today's Diaspora: On Being "Marginally Jewish" / Sandler, Stephanie -- 17. Triple Identities: Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers / Wanner, Adrian -- Afterword: The Future of a Diaspora / Gitelman, Zvi -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Jews of Eastern Europe have immigrated in large numbers to countries like Israel, the United States, and Germany. This migration across international borders has created challenges for Russian-speaking Jews as they forge their cultural, national, and ethnic identities. Gitelman's collection gathers essays on the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora from scholars in a wide range of fields including sociology, anthropology, literature, political science, history, and demography. By taking a multidisciplinary approach, the volume explores the many issues involving Russian-speaking Jews and their diaspora. Areas of focus include demographically defining the people and the diaspora, and what connects these now separated groups; political attitudes of Russian-speaking Jews and the implications of their convictions; the "malleability" of ethnicity and the process of how identity is recreated when transplanted in a new land; the effects migration has had on religiosity for Russian-speaking Jews; and analyzing the literary voices of writers within the diaspora. No previous volume has dealt in such depth with the ever-growing population of migrant Russian-speaking Jews"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Jews, Russian -- Germany -- Ethnic identity
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Jews, Russian -- United States -- Ethnic identity
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Jews, Russian -- Israel -- Ethnic identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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Emigration and immigration
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Russia (Federation) -- Emigration and immigration
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Germany
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Israel
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Russia (Federation)
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gitelman, Zvi Y., editor
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| ISBN |
9780813576305 |
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081357630X |
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9780813576312 |
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0813576318 |
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