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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New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London
Rutgers University Press
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index ; based on papers from a 2011 conference |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 319 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780813576299 978-0-8135-7629-9 9780813576282 978-0-8135-7628-2 |