From Russia to Israel – And Back?: Contemporary Transnational Russian Israeli Diaspora 9783110665208, 9783110668643, 9783110665161

From Russia to Israel – And Back?: Contemporary Transnational Russian Israeli Diaspora 9783110668643, 9783110665161

Of about a million Jews that arrived to Israel from the (former) USSR after 1989 some 12% left the country by the end of

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Contemporary Women Writers Look Back: From Irony to Nostalgia 9781441147448

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The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany 9780813576312

In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews re

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Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel : Aesthetic Israel 9781498507073, 9781498507066

Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel presents studies of eight contemporary works of Israeli fiction by

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Youth Tourism to Israel: Educational Experiences of the Diaspora 9781845410865

This book is a comprehensive analysis of educational tours to Israel for Jewish youth, based on the author's empiri

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Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520920064

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Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520920064

Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody

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Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism 9780814749180

Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tou

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Holy Russia, Sacred Israel: Jewish-Christian Encounters in Russian Religious Thought 9781618116901

Holy Russia, Sacred Israel examines how Russian religious thinkers, both Jewish and Christian, conceived of Judaism, Jew

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Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution 1108483739, 9781108483735

Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat i

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