Russian Jews on Three Continents

Taylor & Francis

Russian Jews on Three ContinentsIdentity, Integration, and Conflict\nAuthor(s): Larissa Remennick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781412848886, 978-1412848886\nSynopsis\nIn the early 1990s, more than [url] million Jews from the former Soviet Union emigrated to Israel, the United States, Canada, Germany, and other Western countries. Larissa Remennick relates the saga of their encounter with the economic marketplaces, lifestyles, and everyday cultures of their new homelands, drawing on comparative sociological research among Russian-Jewish immigrants.\n\nAlthough citizens of Jewish origin ostensibly left the former Soviet Union to flee persecution and join their co-religionists, Israeli, North American, and German Jews were universally disappointed by the new arrivals' tenuous Jewish identity. In turn, Russian Jews, whose identity had been shaped by seventy years of secular education and assimilation into the Soviet .