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Ex-Soviets in Israel : from personal narratives to a group portrait / Larisa Fialkova and Maria N. Yelenevskaya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fialkova, L. L.
- Series:
- Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews, Soviet--Israel--Folklore.
- Jews, Soviet.
- Immigrants--Soviet Union--Folklore.
- Immigrants.
- Jews, Soviet--Israel--Interviews.
- Jews, Soviet--Israel--Identity.
- Jews, Soviet--Cultural assimilation--Israel.
- Israel--Ethnic relations.
- Israel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews migrated at an unprecedented rate to Israel. Here, ex-Soviets tell their immigration experiences, allowing readers to explore this topic directly through immigrants' thoughts, memories, and feelings, rather than artifacts like magazines, films, or books.
- Contents:
- Fieldwork and methods
- Immigration and evolution of identity
- The image of the other in personal narratives
- Symbolic dimensions of time and space
- Lucky coincidence, fate, and miracles in immigrants' lives
- Language and immigrants' identity
- The new life of Russian and Soviet folklore in Israel.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814338391
- 0814338399
- OCLC:
- 777595964
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