Building a Diaspora : : Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA /

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

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 mil...

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Superior document:International Comparative Social Studies ; Volume 13
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Ben Rafael, Eliezer,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:International comparative social studies ; Volume 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 374 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of 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.

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