Exsoviets In Israel: From Personal Narratives To A Group Portrait (Raphael Patai Series In Jewish Folklore And Anthropology),Used

Exsoviets In Israel: From Personal Narratives To A Group Portrait (Raphael Patai Series In Jewish Folklore And Anthropology),Used

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In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews immigrated to Israel at an unprecedented rate, bringing about profound changes in Israeli society and the way immigrants understood their own identity. In this volume exSoviets in Israel reflect on their immigration experiences, allowing readers to explore this transitional cultural group directly through immigrants' thoughts, memories, and feelings, rather than physical artifacts like magazines, films, or books.Drawing on their fieldwork as well as on analyses of the Russianlanguage Israeli media and Internet forums, Larisa Fialkova and Maria N. Yelenevskaya present a collage of cultural and folk traditionsfrom Slavic to Soviet, Jewish, and Muslimto demonstrate that the mythology of Soviet Jews in Israel is still in the making. The authors begin by discussing their research strategies, explaining the sources used as material for the study, and analyzing the demographic profile of the immigrants interviewed for the project. Chapters use immigrants' personal recollections to both find fragments of Jewish tradition that survived despite the assimilation policy in the USSR and show how traditional folk perception of the Other affected immigrants' interaction with members of their receiving society. The authors also investigate how immigrants' perception of time and space affected their integration, consider the mythology of Fate and Lucky Coincidences as a means of fighting immigrant stress, examine folklinguistics and the role of the layperson's view of languages in the life of the immigrant community, and analyze the transformation of folklore genres and images of the country of origin under new conditions.As the biggest immigration wave from a single country in Israel's history, the exSoviet Jews make a fascinating case study for a variety of disciplines. ExSoviets in Israel will be of interest to scholars who work in Jewish and immigration studies, modern folklore, anthropology, and sociolinguistics.

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