ISBN:
9780813576299
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (338 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gitelman, Zvi The New Jewish Diaspora : Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
DDC:
305.892/4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of nearly two million Jews who emigrated from the former Soviet Union and examines the marks they have made on the social and political terrain of the United States, Israel, and Germany. An international array of experts on the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora from a variety of disciplines explore the diverse ways these immigrants have adapted to their new environments, and identify the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them
Abstract:
Title -- Copyright -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Demography -- Chapter 1. Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora -- Chapter 2. The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America. Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel -- Chapter 3. Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine -- Part II. Transnationalism and Diasporas -- Chapter 4. Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU
Abstract:
Chapter 5. Diaspora from the Inside Out. Litvaks in Lithuania Today -- Chapter 6. Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations -- Part III. Political and Economic Change -- Chapter 7. Political Newborns. Immigrants in Israel and Germany -- Chapter 8. The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel. A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity? -- Chapter 9. The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel -- Part IV. Resocialization and the Malleability of Ethnicity -- Chapter 10. Russian-Speaking Jews in Germant
Abstract:
Chapter 11. Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject Among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany -- Chapter 12. Inventing a "New Jew". The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia -- Part V. Migration and Religious Change -- Chapter 13. Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity. Beyond the Israeli National Religion -- Chapter 14. Virtual Village in a Real World. The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online -- Part VI. Diaspora Russian Literature -- Chapter 15. Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation. Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldshtein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky
Abstract:
Chapter 16. Poets and Poetry in Today's Diaspora. On Being "Marginally Jewish" -- Chapter 17. Triple Identities. Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers -- Afterword. The Future of a Diaspora -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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