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Contested Diaspora: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Germany

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The chapter will present tensions between different communal identity constructions of the Jewish diaspora in Germany, due to the immigration of Russian-speaking Jews since 1989. I intend to outline that the conflicts connected with this immigration have to do with the requirements and constraints of the symbolic and institutional order that affects the actions of Germany’s Jewish minority. For one, the symbolic image of a community of victims risks clashing with the actual heterogeneity of Jewish lives. Further, it stands increasingly in conflict with the manifold narratives that, following the Russian-Jewish migration have gained in importance. And finally, it collides with the processes of transnationalisation and multiple forms of belonging that are definitive for the future of the Jewish diaspora in Germany.

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29-47

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978-3-319-32891-1

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Koerber, Karen Contested Diaspora: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Germany. Diaspora as Cultures of Cooperation: Global and Local Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. 2017: 29-47.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/978-3-319-32892-8_2