1st Edition
Russian Jews on Three Continents Identity, Integration, and Conflict
By Larissa Remennick
Copyright 2007
426 Pages
by
Routledge
418 Pages
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Routledge
418 Pages
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Routledge
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In the early 1990s, more than 1.6 million Jews from the former Soviet Union emigrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, Germany, and other Western countries. Larissa Remennick relates the saga of their encounter with the economic marketplaces, lifestyles, and everyday cultures of their new homelands, drawing on comparative sociological research among Russian-Jewish immigrants. Although... Read more
1: Soviet Jewry and the Dilemma of Emigration; 2: Newcomers in the Promised Land: Integration or Separatism?; 3: Soviet Jews in the U.S.: Chasing the American Dream; 4: “Being a Woman is Different Here”: Changing Attitudes towards Femininity, Sexuality, and Gender Roles among Former Soviet Women Living in Greater Boston 1; 5: Former Soviet Jews in Toronto, Canada; 6: The Promised Land in the Heart of Europe: Identity and Social Incorporation among Former Soviet Jews in Germany; 7: Lost Relatives or Strangers? Jews or Former Soviets? In Search of the Common Denominator
Biography
Larissa Remennick
