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. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813576305
081357630X
9780813576312
0813576318