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 citizens of Jewish origin ostensibly left the former
Soviet Union to flee persecution and join their co-religionists,
Israeli, North American, and German Jews were universally
disappointed by the new arrivals' tenuous Jewish identity. In turn,
Russian Jews, whose identity had been shaped by seventy years of
secular education and assimilation into the Soviet mainstream,
hoped to be accepted as ambitious and hard working individuals
seeking better lives. These divergent expectations shaped lines of
conflict between Russian-speaking Jews and the Jewish communities
of the receiving countries.
Since her own immigration to Israel from Moscow in 1991,
Remennick has been both a participant and an observer of this saga.
This is the first attempt to compare resettlement and integration
experiences of a single ethnic community (former Soviet Jews) in
various global destinations. It also analyzes their emerging
transnational lifestyles. Written from an interdisciplinary
perspective, this book opens new perspectives for a diverse
readership, including sociologists, anthropologists, political
scientists, historians, Slavic scholars, and Jewish studies
specialists.
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