International Comparative Social Studies
1 primary work • 2 total works
Book 13
Building a Diaspora
by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Mikhail Lyubansky, Olaf Gluckner, Paul Harris, Yael Israel, Willy Jasper, and Julius Schoeps
Published 1 October 2006
The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their “good reasons” to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany.
This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity.
In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas.
This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity.
In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas.
Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities
by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Miriam Ben-Rafael
Published 26 November 2018