Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Figures xi
4. List of Tables xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between 1
7. Part I. Demography: Who Are the Migrants and Where Have They Gone?
8. 1. Demography of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora 23
9. 2. The Russian-Speaking Israeli Diaspora in the FSU, Europe, and North America: Jewish Identification and Attachment to Israel 41
10. 3. Home in the Diaspora? Jewish Returnees and Transmigrants in Ukraine 60
11. Part II. Transnationalism and Diasporas
12. 4. Rethinking Boundaries in the Jewish Diaspora from the FSU 77
13. 5. Diaspora from the Inside Out: Litvaks in Lithuania Today 89
14. 6. Russian-Speaking Jews and Israeli Emigrants in the United States: A Comparison of Migrant Populations 103
15. Part III. Political and Economic Change
16. 7. Political Newborns: Immigrants in Israel and Germany 125
17. 8. The Move from Russia/the Soviet Union to Israel: A Transformation of Jewish Culture and Identity? 139
18. 9. The Economic Integration of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel 156
19. Part IV. Resocialization and the Malleability of Ethnicity
20. 10. Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany 173
21. 11. Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Civic Subject among Russian-Jewish Migrants in Germany 186
22. 12. Inventing a “New Jew”: The Transformation of Jewish Identity in Post-Soviet Russia 196
23. Part V. Migration and Religious Change
24. 13. Post-Soviet Immigrant Religiosity: Beyond the Israeli National Religion 213
25. 14. Virtual Village in a Real World: The Russian Jewish Diaspora Online 229
26. Part VI. Diaspora Russian Literature
27. 15. Four Voices from the Last Soviet Generation: Evgeny Steiner, Alexander Goldshtein, Oleg Yuryev, and Alexander Ilichevsky 251
28. 16. Poets and Poetry in Today’s Diaspora: On Being “Marginally Jewish” 266
29. 17. Triple Identities: Russian-Speaking Jews as German, American, and Israeli Writers 286
30. Afterword: The Future of a Diaspora 299
31. Notes on Contributors 303
32. Index 307