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The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States
Sociological Insights from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan
Vladimir Ze'ev Khanin
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The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States
Sociological Insights from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan
Vladimir Ze'ev Khanin
About This Book
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 2019â2020 by this author in the five former-Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan).
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- About this Series âPost-Soviet Jewry in Transitionâ
- Chapter 1âIntroduction
- Chapter 2âEthnic and Political Demography
- Chapter 3âJewish Identity
- Chapter 4âThe Phenomenon and Israeli Focus of the Transnational Identity of Post-Soviet Jewry
- Chapter 5âThe Civic Identity of Russian-Speaking Jews 30 Years After the USSR
- Chapter 6âReligious Identity and Religious-Cultural Tradition
- Chapter 7ââSecularâ Culture and the Identity of Post-Soviet Jews
- Chapter 8âLanguage as a Tool and Symbol of Ethnocultural Identity
- Chapter 9âJewish Personal and Group Space in the Former USSR â State-of-Affairs and Prospects
- Chapter 10âJewish Community â Participation and Structure
- Chapter 11âAnti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism as Factors of Post-Soviet Jewish Life
- Chapter 12âMigration 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
- Subject Index
- Index of Persons