Израильтяне, "русские" и русские израильтяне: современный мир новых транснациональных еврейских диаспор

Translated title of the contribution: ISRAELIS, "RUSSIANS" AND RUSSIAN ISRAELIS: THE WORLD OF CONTEMPORARY NEW TRANSNATIONAL JEWISH DIASPORAS

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Abstract

Current research on international migration and immigrants' adaptation in the host societies often uses the concept of transnationalism which is defined as the process by which migrants preserve relations that connect their society of origin with that of their new place of residence. Although these trends are regarded to be a phenomenon of a few recent decades, the Jewish experience shows the realization of this «transnational identity» model in the course of the most of the national history. During the recent eighteen centuries the Jewish Diaspora to some extent was also an Israeli Diaspora, i.e., the people of off-springs of Yaakov-Israel, the Biblical forefather of the Jewish nation, having a strong emotional, cultural and religious identification with Jerusalem and the Land of Israel/Palestine as the historical Homeland of the Jewish people. This became even more complex after the (re-)establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and the appearance, as a part of extensive Jewish migration in the recent decades, of two new transnational Jewish Diasporas - Israeli and Russian Jewish, both having a substantial «Israeli-centrist» component of their identity. Although this Russian-Jewish Diaspora did become a focus of quite impressive amount of academic literature, its identity and the value system vis-a-vis their relations with the State of Israel is far from been studied in-depth. As for the Israeli Diaspora, contrary to a huge amount of research devoted to Israeli-born persons, who left the country and mostly settled in North America, less was done on this diaspora in Western Europe, while the Russian-speaking segment of the Israeli Diaspora, meaning some 160,000 Israeli passport holders born in the (former) USSR and their Israeli-born children, that live now outside the Jewish state, is almost completely understudied. And even less was published about interrelations of three new big transnational Diaspora groups - Israelis, the Russian Jews and the Russian Israelis - that in the course of a few recent decades live next to each other outside their «metropolises», i.e., Russia and Israel. The current collection opted to fill this gap by addressing to Israeli Diasporas, both in the wide and specific meanings of this term, and with a focus on their Russian-Jewish component, in the three areas: the former Soviet Union (mostly Russia and Ukraine); the Western Europe (Austria) and the USA.
Translated title of the contributionISRAELIS, "RUSSIANS" AND RUSSIAN ISRAELIS: THE WORLD OF CONTEMPORARY NEW TRANSNATIONAL JEWISH DIASPORAS
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)6-19
Number of pages14
JournalДИАСПОРЫ
Volume2
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2013

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Keywords

  • Jews, Russian -- Israel -- Social conditions
  • Jewish diaspora -- Historiography
  • Jews, Russian -- United States -- Social conditions
  • Israel -- Yeridah

RAMBI Publications

  • RAMBI Publications
  • Jews, Russian -- Israel -- Social conditions
  • Jewish diaspora -- Historiography
  • Jews, Russian -- United States -- Social conditions
  • Israel -- Yeridah

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