Building a Diaspora: Russian Jews in Israel, Germany And the USA (INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE SOCIAL STUDIES, 13) - Hardcover

Eliezer Ben-Rafael; Mikhail Lyubansky; Olaf Glockner; Paul Harris; Julius Schoeps

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004153322 ISBN 13: 9789004153325

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2006

Synopsis

This book investigates the Russian-speaking Jews who recently settled abroad: a million in Israel, half a million in the USA and 2. in Germany. A comparative work by an international team of researchers, it delves, in true time, into the making of an exemplary contemporary transnational diaspora.

About this title

About the Author

Eliezer Ben-Rafael is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Tel-Aviv. His main research interests focus on the sociology of Judaism, immigration, ethnicity and language.

Olaf Glöckner is a Ph.D. student in history at the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, University of Potsdam. He specializes in contemporary Jewish Russian-speaking immigration to Israel and Germany.

Paul Harris is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Augusta State University. He is an observer of the German society with a special focus on immigration and public policy.

Yael Israel is a Ph.D. student in Sociology, University of Tel-Aviv. She specializes in sociology of religion and women studies.

Willi Jasper is Professor of 19th and 20th centurie German and Jewish Literature and Culture, University of Potsdam.

Mikhail Lyubansky is a clinical psychologist and a lecturer in Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests focus on racial and ethnic group relations.

Julius H. Schoeps is a Professor of Contemporary Jewish and German History, University of Potsdam, and the Director of Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum for the Study of European Jewry.

Review

" (...) Building a Diaspora: Russian Jews in Isreal, Germany and the USA is an insightful and thought-provoking study. It makes a valuable contribution to the scholaship, and it is a necessary source for those who study ethnicity, immigration and diasporas in the epoch of globalization."
Maria Yelenevskaya, Studies in Contemporary Jewry. An Annual (2008) 266-269.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9004153322
• ISBN 13: 9789004153325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 374