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Between Three Worlds Host, Homeland, and Global Media in the Lives of Russian Immigrant Families in Israel and Germany
Author(s): Elias, Nelly; Lemish, Dafna
Date: 2011
Topics: Focus Groups, Integration, Interviews, Media, Russian Emigration, Russian-Speaking Jews, Family and Household, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This study investigated various roles played by host, homeland, and global media in the lives of immigrant families from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, former USSR) to Israel and Germany, as well as the place of different media in family conflicts, consolidation, and parenting strategies. The study was based on focus group interviews with 60 families of Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel and Germany and 73 semistructured, in-depth interviews with immigrant youngsters. The findings of this study demonstrate that the mass media fulfill diverse roles for immigrant families, assisting them face two main relocation challenges: integration “inward” (i.e., cultural transmission and family consolidation) and “outward” integration into their new surroundings.
Living in Germany, Longing for Israel. The Old Jewish Immigrants from the FSU in Germany
Author(s): Elias, Nelly
Date: 2005
Topics: Immigration, Aliyah, Russian-Speaking Jews, Russian Emigration, Ageing and the Elderly, Main Topic: Other
Wandering Jews, Wandering Stereotypes: Media Representation of the Russian-speaking Jews in the FSU, Israel and Germany
Author(s): Elias, Nelly; Bernstein, Julia
Editor(s): Liepach, Martin; Melischek, Gabriele; Seethaler, Martin
Date: 2007
Topics: Immigration, Russian-Speaking Jews, Russian Emigration, Stereotypes, Antisemitism, Antisemitism: Discourse, Media, Main Topic: Other
Coming Home: Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel and Germany
Author(s): Elias, Nelly
Date: 2008
Topics: Diaspora, Immigration, Russian Emigration, Russian-Speaking Jews, Media, Interviews, Main Topic: Demography and Migration
Abstract: Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.

Coming Home provides an extraordinary glimpse into the social and cultural integration of a unique category of immigrants—the returning Diaspora. During the 1990s Russian-speaking Jews and Germans returned to their respective historic homelands. Nelly Elias explores the social and cultural adaptation of these two groups by focusing on the roles played by their native language—Russian—and the language used by the media of each country. Based on one hundred in-depth interviews conducted with immigrants now living in both Israel and Germany, Coming Home considers media use to be an inseparable part of an immigrant’s adaptation strategy, simultaneously reflecting construction of a new social and cultural identity while also preserving their original cultural identities.