The Pilgrim Soul: Being Russian in Israel

The Pilgrim Soul: Being Russian in Israel
ISBN-10
1604975989
ISBN-13
9781604975987
Category
Social Science
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Cambria Press
Author
Elana Gomel

Description

The story of the post-Soviet Jews in Israel illustrates a general phenomenon of cultural divergence, in which history carves different identities out of common stock. Besides marking a turning point in the development of Israel, it belongs to the larger picture of the contemporary world, profoundly marked by the collapse of the catastrophic utopias of Nazism and Communism. And yet this story has not adequately been dealt with by the academy. There have been relatively few studies of the Russian immigration to Israel and none that situates the phenomenon in a cultural, rather than purely sociological, context.

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