2 “Excuse Me, Are You Jewish?”: The Newfound Religiosity of Post-Soviet Jews in Israel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction. Russian-Speaking Jews in Israel: An Establishing Shot 1
6. 1 From Dissent to Counterculture: Soviet-Jewish History and Memory in Israel 23
7. 2 “Excuse Me, Are You Jewish?”: The Newfound Religiosity of Post-Soviet Jews in Israel 49
8. 3 Orientalist Cosmopolitanism: Encounters with the Other in Israel 82
9. 4 Artists of the 1.5 Generation: From Post-Soviet Nostalgia to the 2022 War in Ukraine 116
10. Conclusion. The Future of Russophone Culture in Israel? 144
11. Notes 157
12. Bibliography 175
13. Index 189