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Title Russian-Jewish emigrants after the Cold War : perspectives from Germany, Israel, Canada and the United States / edited by Olaf Gloeckner, Evgenija Garbolevsky, and Sabine von Mering.

Imprint [Waltham, Mass.] : Brandeis University, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.8947 R92 2006    ---  Available
Description 136 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents Vayis'u Vayahanu [And they traveled and they encamped] : the nature and consequences of Soviet/Post-Soviet Jewish migration / Zvi Gitelman -- No reason for "sitting on packed suitcases" : Russian-Jewish immigrants finding their home in modern Jewish society / Julius H. Schoeps -- Israeli and Russian Jews : gendered perspectives on settlement and return / Steven J. Gold -- Building the Russian-Jewish Community in North America : the case of Boston / Irene Belozersky and Ariel Borschevsky -- Layered identities : Jews from the former Soviet Union in Toronto / Rina Cohen -- Soviet Jews in the new/old homeland : between integration and separatism / Larissa Remennick -- Recollection and relocation in immigration : Russian-Jewish immigrants "normalize" their anti-Semitic experiences / Tamar Rapoport, Edna Lmosky-Feder, and Angelika Heider -- Only renowned immigrants are mentioned in the press : German media and the Russian-Jewish minority from 1990 to 2005 / Olaf Gloeckner -- Foreigners in wonderland : a critical view of the expectations and experiences among Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Berlin / Judith Kessler -- Between ethnocentrism, Israeli-centrism, and cosmopolitism : analyzing the national identity of the Russian-speaking Jewry / Alek Epstein and Nina Kheimets.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note "A collection of articles based on a symposium held at Brandeis University in the spring of 2004"--T.p.
"Published by the Center forv German and European Studies at Brandeis University with generous support from the European Recovery Program (ERP)"--T.p.
Subject Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Jews -- Russia (Federation) -- 20th century.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- 20th century.
Jews, Russian -- Migrations -- 20th century.
Russia (Federation) -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century.
Added Author Gloeckner, Olaf.
Garbolevsky, Evgenija.
Von Mering, Sabine.
Brandeis University. Center for German and European Studies.

 
    
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