The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States: Sociological Insights from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan

Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States

Sociological Insights from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan

Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin

Volume 1 in the series Post-Soviet Jewry in Transition

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791075

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About this book

Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taking place against the gradual inflation of a collective identity among Russian-speaking Jews that survived the first post-Soviet decade. The infrastructure for this new entity is provided by new local (or ethno-civic) groups of East European Ashkenazi Jewry with specific communal, subcultural, and ethno-political identities (“Ukrainian,” “Moldavian,” or “Russian” Jews, e.g.). These communities demonstrate a changing balance of identification between their countries of residence and the “transnational Russian-Jewish community”, and they absorb a significant number of persons of non-Jewish and ethnically heterogeneous origins as well.

This book discusses identity, community modes, migration dynamics, socioeconomic status, attitudes toward Israel, social and political environments, and other parameters framing these trends using the results of a comprehensive sociological study of the extended Jewish population conducted in 2019–2020 by this author in the five former-Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan).

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Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin, Bar-Ilan University and Israeli Ministry of Aliya and Integration, Israel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
About this Series “Post-Soviet Jewry in Transition” Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Chapter 1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Ethnic and Political Demography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 3 Jewish Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 4 The Phenomenon and Israeli Focus of the Transnational Identity of Post- Soviet Jewry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 5 The Civic Identity of Russian-Speaking Jews 30 Years After the USSR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 6 Religious Identity and Religious-Cultural Tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 7 “Secular” Culture and the Identity of Post-Soviet Jews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter 8 Language as a Tool and Symbol of Ethnocultural Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Chapter 9 Jewish Personal and Group Space in the Former USSR – State-of-Affairs and Prospects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter 10 Jewish Community – Participation and Structure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Chapter 11 Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism as Factors of Post-Soviet Jewish Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 12 Migration Trends and Emigration Plans of Euro-Asian Jews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Epilogue: Perspectives and Challenges from Jewish Life in the Former USSR in Light of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Academics in the field of Jewish Studies and Eastern Europe studies, Jewish organizations.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 301
Illustrations
- Line drawings: 1
- Tables: 156
Keywords: Russian language; Jewry; identity; ethnicity; community

eBook

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783110791075

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783110790986