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Becoming Post-Communist: Jews And The New Political Cultures Of Russia And Eastern Europe
Editor(s): Lederhendler, Eli
Date: 2023
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Post-1989, Politics, Memory
Abstract: Across the landscape that until 1939 housed most of the world’s Jewish population, the closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals: the overturning of the East European communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The legacy of the Jewish presence in those countries, as viewed from today’s vantage point, and the ways in which it became enmeshed in the quest by people of the region – Jews and non-Jews alike – to secure their prospects for the future, highlighted fundamental issues about the nature and quality of the politics of memory, national identity, and the continuity and relative stability of regimes in the region. If those questions were important even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, understanding their implications now seems even more crucial. In a field fraught with conflicting narratives, the challenges of social and political reconstruction are primary concerns for peoples and governments. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret a multiplicity of post-communist social realities and aid our understanding of recent events.
Immigration to Israel among the Professional Class: A Case Study of Legal and Medical Professionals among the Jews of France
Author(s): Cohen, Erik H.
Editor(s): Rebhun, Uzi; Lederhendler, Eli
Date: 2015
Topics: Aliyah, Employment, Emigration, Main Topic: Demography and Migration
Humor and Russian Jewish Identity
Author(s): Shternshis, Anna
Editor(s): Lederhendler, Eli; Finder, Gabriel N.
Date: 2016
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Oral History and Biography, Interviews, Humour, Soviet Jewry