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Author:   Larissa Remennick (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780415696968

ISBN 10:   0415696968
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   13 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Twenty years together: the ‘Great Aliya’ and Russian Israelis in the mirror of social research, Larissa Remennick. 2. Who went where? Jewish immigration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel, the USA and Germany, 1990 – 2000, Yinon Cohen, Yitchak Haberfeld and Irena Kogan. 3. ‘Russians’ in Israel as a post-Soviet subject: implementing the civilizational repertoire, Julia Lerner. 4. Old values in the new homeland: political attitudes of FSU immigrants in Israel, Michael Philippov and Anna Knafelman. 5. Russian-Jewish political experience in Israel: patterns, elites and movements, Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin. 6. Russian-speaking immigrants and their media: still together?, Nelly Elias. 7. Cultural practices and preferences of ‘Russian’ youth in Israel, Marina Niznik. 8. How long is ‘the Russian street’ in Israel? Prospects of maintaining the Russian language, Shulamit Kopeliovich. 9. ‘Non-Jewish and Christian’: perceived discrimination and social distance among FSU migrants in Israel, Rebeca Raijman and Janina Pinsky. 10. Immigrants in the city: from exploration to domestication, Larisa Fialkova and Maria Yelenevskaya. 11. ‘Is Israel part of Russia?’ Immigrants on Russian and Israeli screens, Olga Gershenson.

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Larissa Remennick is Professor of Sociology at Bar-Ilan University in greater Tel-Aviv. She was educated in Russia and in the UK (Ph.D. at the Institute of Sociology, Moscow, 1988, followed by post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford University, 1989) and migrated to Israel in 1991. Her research interests include immigration, integration and ethnic relations in general, as well as Jewish identity, emigration and Russian-Jewish global diaspora specifically. Her most recent book is Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict (Transaction, 2007).

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