The third way: German–Russian–European Jewish identity in a global Jewish world
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From 1990 until 2008, about 200,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union migrated to Germany. At the same time, Germany re-unified and took its place at the centre of the new Europe. In a global world, in which people maintain multiple homes, languages, identities and means of communication across thousands of miles, these migrants challenged German Jewish notions of identity, rootedness and community. Their particular Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to these issues also challenged the liberalising tendencies of an emerging European Jewish identity. This review essay examines how Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish migration to Germany interacted and intersected with new notions of European Jewish identity in Germany, with special focus on Berlin, the largest, most cosmopolitan Jewish community in Germany. Rather than continuing to bemoan the ‘failed integration’ of post-Soviet Jewry into some notion of fixed German Jewish identity or into liberal European notions of identity, a global approach would allow for the co-existence of many Jewish identities in a diverse German Jewish community.
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Immigration Jewish Identity Pluralism Globalisation Russian Emigration Russian-Speaking Jews Main Topic: Identity and Community
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18(1)
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111-121
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The third way: German–Russian–European Jewish identity in a global Jewish world
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The third way: German–Russian–European Jewish identity in a global Jewish world. 2011: 111-121. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-ger33
