The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States : : Sociological Insights from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan / / Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Khanin, Vladimir Ze’ev,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Post-Soviet Jewry in Transition , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 301 p.)

Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taking place against the gradual inflation of a collective identity among Russian-speaking Jews that survived the first post-Soviet decade. The infrastructure for this new entity is provided by new local (or ethno-civic) groups of East European Ashkenazi Jewry with specific communal, subcultural, and ethno-political identities (“Ukrainian,” “Moldavian,” or “Russian” Jews, e.g.). These communities demonstrate a changing balance of identification between their countries of residence and the “transnational Russian-Jewish community”, and they absorb a significant number of persons of non-Jewish and ethnically heterogeneous origins as well. This book discusses identity, community modes, migration dynamics, socioeconomic status, attitudes toward Israel, social and political environments, and other parameters framing these trends using the results of a comprehensive sociological study of the extended Jewish population conducted in 2019–2020 by this author in the five former-Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- About this Series “Post-Soviet Jewry in Transition” -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Ethnic and Political Demography -- Chapter 3 Jewish Identity -- Chapter 4 The Phenomenon and Israeli Focus of the Transnational Identity of Post- Soviet Jewry -- Chapter 5 The Civic Identity of Russian-Speaking Jews 30 Years After the USSR -- Chapter 6 Religious Identity and Religious-Cultural Tradition -- Chapter 7 “Secular” Culture and the Identity of Post-Soviet Jews -- Chapter 8 Language as a Tool and Symbol of Ethnocultural Identity -- Chapter 9 Jewish Personal and Group Space in the Former USSR – State-of-Affairs and Prospects -- Chapter 10 Jewish Community – Participation and Structure -- Chapter 11 Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism as Factors of Post-Soviet Jewish Life -- Chapter 12 Migration Trends and Emigration Plans of Euro-Asian Jews -- Epilogue: Perspectives and Challenges from Jewish Life in the Former USSR in Light of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict -- References -- Subject Index -- Index of Persons