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Levantovskaya, Margarita.

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Rootless Cosmopolitans: Literature of the Soviet-Jewish Diaspora.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Rootless Cosmopolitans: Literature of the Soviet-Jewish Diaspora./
作者:	Levantovskaya, Margarita.
面頁冊數:	218 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-11A(E).
標題:	Slavic studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3587840
ISBN:	9781303254789

Rootless Cosmopolitans: Literature of the Soviet-Jewish Diaspora.
Levantovskaya, Margarita.

Rootless Cosmopolitans: Literature of the Soviet-Jewish Diaspora. - 218 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2013.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

By the end of the twentieth century, Russian-speaking Jews solidified their reputation as emigrants and refugees - a people without a home. This was because the turn of the twenty-first century saw large waves of Jewish emigration out of the former Soviet Union. This emigration produced a new diaspora and new cultural identities shaped by Soviet history, the experience of relocation and contact with host-cultures, particularly Israel and the United States. Scholars, artists and policy-makers have had a difficult time fitting ex-Soviet Jews into existing identity categories. Consequently, Russian-speaking Jews came to be perceived within their new homelands as inauthentic Jews as a result of their cultural hybridity. Moreover, ex-Soviet Jews' lingering attachments to the former Soviet Union, ambivalence about putting down new roots, and reluctance to view their immigration to Israel as a return to their Promised Land, have compromised dominant theories of Jewish belonging.

ISBN: 9781303254789Subjects--Topical Terms:

3171903
Slavic studies.

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