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| Genre/Form: | Academic Dissertation Academic theses Thèses et écrits académiques |
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| Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Julia Bernstein |
| ISBN: | 9783593392523 3593392526 |
| OCLC Number: | 1049532252 |
| Description: | 451 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Migration collages: Studying Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany -- 1.1. Migration and socio-cultural affiliations -- 1.2. The research approach -- 1.3. Research questions -- 1.4. Research methods -- 1.5.Comparative view of the two populations -- 1.6. General characteristics of the investigated groups -- 1.7. Transporting Jewish identity from the SU -- 1.8. Overview of the book -- 2. Transnationalism and capitalism: Migrants from the former Soviet Union and their experiences in Germany and Israel -- 2.1. The Soviet kind of capitalism: Soviet spirituality vs. Western materialism -- 2.2. Post-Soviet capitalism on food commodities -- 2.3."Arrival on a new planet" -- 2.4. Reviving Soviet knowledge about the social reality of life in the capitalist system -- 2.5."The Russia we had always dreamed of -- some conclusions -- 3."Chocolates without history are meaningless": Pre- and post-migration consumption -- 3.1. Soviet "hunting and gathering." Note continued: 3.2. The classic Soviet recipe rook: On the Tasty and Healthy Food Book -- 3.3. Social skills of post-migration consumption -- 3.4. Alternative ways of procurement and free consumption -- 3.5. Contested procurement -- 4. Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: Images of imaginary home, homeland, and identity consolidation -- 4.1. Visibility of Russian food stores in Israel and Germany -- 4.2. Image of the hostess in the Russian food stores -- 4.3. Longing for the REAL home via food -- 4.4.Commercial promotion of nostalgia -- 4.5. Images of the Soviet paradise -- 4.6. Image of Soviet proletarian food or the imaginary proletarian home -- 4.7. Images of the Soviet empire and the Soviet political iconography of food post-emigration -- 4.8. Nationalized Russia in food products and gastronomic Slavophilism of ex-citizens abroad -- 4.9. Meanings of Russian food stores in Israel and Germany. Note continued: 5. Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: Different national symbolic participations and virtual transnational enclave -- 5.1. Special national key symbols crossing borders and manifestations of identity: The symbolic meaning of pork and cariar in different national contexts -- 5.2. Pork -- 5.3. Caviar -- 5.4. Mixed national identities in Russian food stores in Israel and Germany -- 5.5. Reconsidering the immigrant enterprise: From traditional, closed ethnic business toward a virtual transnational enclave -- 6. Transjewish affiliation: The construction of ethnicity by Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany -- 6.1. The "ethnicity" and ethnization processes of Russian-speaking Jews -- 6.2.Component One: Innate ethnicity and visible Otherness and its fate abroad -- 6.3.Component Two: Significant Others in the SU and abroad -- 6.4.Component Three: Suspect loyalty: Soviet Jewish Otherness through affiliation with Israel. Note continued: 6.5.Component Four: Affiliation with Soviet Russian cultural elite -- 6.6. Conclusion -- 6.7. Triple Trans-Jewish affiliation -- 7. Winners once a year? Making sense of WWII and the Holocaust as part of a transnational biographic experience -- 7.1. Celebration of Den' Pobedy Victory Day -- 7.2. Conflicting meanings of May 8th and 9th -- 7.3. Soviet victors' narrative and the theme of the Holocaust in the SU -- 7.4. Transnational praxis of the everyday knowledge after migration to Germany -- 7.5. Proud of the Soviet victory, offended by the Soviet state or marginalized winners -- 7.6. Challenging the victory narrative and burdensome identities -- 7.7. The Outsider perspective -- 7.8. Principally Others: Media discourse about the topic -- 7.9. Shifting of the collective "we:" Media presentation of Germans and settled Jews as the symbolical "we" compared to "Russians." Note continued: 7.10."Without us Israel would not have come into existence. We won the war and put an end to the Holocaust " -- 7.11.Comparative conclusions of different modifications of the original narratives in Israel and Germany -- 8."Will you prepare gefillte fish for Christmas?" Paradoxes of living in simultaneously contested social worlds -- 8.1. Reconsidering identities, reproducing stereotypes, coping with hierarchies -- 8.2. Alienation, home, and homeland: "Why not Israel?" Self-positioning of Russian-speaking Jews in Germany and Israel -- 8.3. Conclusion -- 8.4. Contributions of this research -- 8.5. Further development. |
| Responsibility: | Julia Bernstein. |
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