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Book SynopsisIn 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region.
The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora.
Trade Review"A most intriguing read." * Haaretz *
"Between 1971 and 2009, some two million Jews left the Soviet Union, settling mainly in Israel, the U.S. and later, Germany. The focus of this study is on these immigrants and how they succeeded (or failed) to adapt to their new homes ... The essays, most by Israeli scholars, approach the subject from different perspectives, to determine what the creation of this new Jewish diaspora has meant to the three countries where most have settled, and to the immigrants themselves." * Chicago Jewish Star *
"An important contribution to the growing body of literature on contemporary Russian Jews around the world." -- David Shneer * University of Colorado *
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The New Jewish Diaspora provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Jewish Studies, Russian Studies, and Diaspora and Transnationalism. The thematic breadth and the complex questions this volume poses make it particularly well-suited to serve as a textbook for courses on diasporic
Russian-Jewish culture and society....
The New Jewish Diaspora is a major contribution to the study of diasporic Russian-Jewish culture and society." * Journal of Jewish Identities *
Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between Zvi GitelmanPart I Demography: Who Are the Migrants and Where Have They Gone?Chapter 1 Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora Mark ToltsChapter 2 The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America: Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel Uzi RebhunChapter 3 Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine Marina SapritskyPart II Transnationalism and DiasporasChapter 4 Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU Jonathan Dekel-ChenChapter 5 Diaspora from the Inside Out: Litvaks in Lithuania Today Hannah Pollin-GalayChapter 6 Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations Steven J. GoldPart III Political and Economic ChangeChapter 7 Political Newborns: Immigrants in Israel and Germany Olena Bagno-MoldavskiChapter 8 The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel: A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity Yaacov Ro’iChapter 9 The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel Gur OferPart IV Resocialization and the Malleability of EthnicityChapter 10 Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany Eliezer Ben-RafaelChapter 11 Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany Sveta RobermanChapter 12 Inventing a “New Jew”: The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia Elena Nosenko-ShteinPart V Migration and Religious ChangeChapter 13 Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity: Beyond the Israeli National Religion Nelly Elias and Julia LernerChapter 14 Virtual Village in a Real World: The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online Anna ShternshisPart VI Diaspora Russian LiteratureChapter 15 Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation: Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldstein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky Mikhail KrutikovChapter 16 Poets and Poetry in Today’s Diaspora: On Being “Marginally Jewish” Stephanie SandlerChapter 17 Triple Identities: Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers Adrian WannerAfterword: The Future of a Diaspora Zvi GitelmanNotes on ContributorsIndex
