The new Jewish diaspora: Russian-speaking immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany

"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 collecti...

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Other Authors: Gitelman, Zvi Y. 1940- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London Rutgers University Press [2016]
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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 w
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index ; based on papers from a 2011 conference
Physical Description:xv, 319 Seiten
ISBN:9780813576299
9780813576282

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