Building a Diaspora : Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA / Eliezer Ben-Rafael [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben Rafael, Eliezer, author.

Series:

International comparative social studies ; Volume 13.

International Comparative Social Studies ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish diaspora.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 374 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2006]

Summary:

The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their "good reasons" to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas.

Contents:

Preface

PART A: BUILDING A TRANSNATIONAL DIASPORA

Chapter 1: Collective construction

Chapter 2: The shake-up of Russian Jewry

Chapter 3: Research Methodology

PART B: BUILDING COMMUNITIES

Chapter 4: When ethnicity becomes national and vice-versa: Israel

Chapter 5: A new American Jewry

Chapter 6: Russian Jews in Germany

Chapter 7: Communities compared

PART C: COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES

Chapter 8: RSJs' images and self-images in Israel

Chapter 9: RSJs images and self-images in America

Chapter 10: RSJs' images and self-images in Germany

Chapter 11: Divergent and Convergent Identities

Chapter 12: RSJs' distancing from "others"

PART D: MEDIA DISCOURSE

Chapter 13: RSJs' press and in the Press

Israel

Chapter 14: RSJs' Press and in the Press

USA

Chapter 15: RSJs' Press and in the Press

Germany

Chapter 16: RSJs' Press and in the Press

In Comparative Perspective

PART E: PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 17: The phases of collective construction

Chapter 18: "Jewishness" versus "Russianness"?

Chapter 19: RSJs in perspective

Addenda

Addendum 1: The Experience of Non-Jewish "Russian" Immigrants in Israel

Addendum 2: Policy-making perspectives

Appendices

Appendix 1: SAM survey and Measures

Appendix 2: The media analysis: classification System

Bibliography

The authors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-474-1853-0