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Criss-Crossing Identities: The Russian Jewish Diaspora and the Jewish Diaspora in Russia
Author(s): Markowitz, Fran
Date: 1995
Topics: Jewish Identity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Diaspora, Russian Emigration, Russian-Speaking Jews
Retrospective and Afterological Considerations of the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora: Whence and Whither?
Author(s): Markowitz, Fran
Date: 2009
Topics: Russian-Speaking Jews, Russian Emigration, Diaspora, Globalisation, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: This article reviews the transformations undergone by Russian speaking Jews over the past half century, and how these have been portrayed in key scholarly texts. It analyzes the representation of Soviet Jews first as a people of silence, then as new immigrants in Israel and North America, and, most recently, as a globalized community or worldwide diaspora. But rather than accepting these identity transformations as a fait accompli, the article problematizes their present meanings and ponders future trends.
Diasporas with a Difference: Jewish and Georgian Teenagers' Ethnic Identity in the Russian Federation
Author(s): Markowitz, Fran
Date: 1997
Topics: Ethnography, Youth, Teenagers, Jewish Identity, Ethnicity, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Comparisons with other communities
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Seven years after the Soviet Union gave way to the Russian Federation (and fourteen other independent states), it is important to see what difference this Soviet legacy makes as young Jews and Georgians in Russia try out the various ethnic understandings at their disposal to forge identities and identifications that resonate with the puzzling political realities in which they live.
Whose Jews? Whose Bosnia? Whose Europe?
Author(s): Markowitz, Fran
Date: 2012
Topics: Nationalism, Ethnicity, Conflict, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Bosnia-Herzegovina’s governance depends on a constitution that was drafted in Dayton, Ohio. It designates the Bosniacs, Croats and Serbs (along with Others) the country’s constituent peoples. Although Jews have been residents of Bosnia-Herzegovina for 500 years, with the country’s new constitution they have disappeared from official records into the residual category of Others. This article considers how, nonetheless, the Jews of Sarajevo persist as an active community and a named group even as its identity is being defined by others. The interrelated questions, “Whose Jews? Whose Bosnia? Whose Europe?” have no neat, finite answers while Jews-as-Others and Bosnia as an ethnically divided and overdetermined, EU-supervised country remain precariously perched on unsettled and unsettling configurations of rights and power.
If a Platypus is Both a Reptile and a Mammal, Can a Person Be Both a Russian and a Jew? Post-Soviet Teenagers' Constructions of Russian Jewish Identity
Author(s): Markowitz, Fran
Date: 1996
Topics: Teenagers, Jewish Identity, Youth, Students, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Soviet Dis-Union and the Fragmenting of Self: Implications for the Emigrating Jewish Family
Author(s): Markowitz, Fran
Date: 1994
Topics: Immigration, Emigration, Aliyah, Family and Household, Children, Main Topic: Identity and Community