Abstract
"A collection of articles based on a symposium held at Brandeis University in the spring of 2004."
"Published by the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University with generous support from the European Recovery Program (ERP)."
Vayis'u Vayahanu [And they traveled and they encamped] : the nature and consequences of Soviet/Post-Soviet Jewish migration / by Zvi Gitelman -- No reason for "sitting on packed suitcases" : Russian-Jewish immigrants finding their home in modern Jewish society / by Julius H. Schoeps -- ǂt Israeli and Russian Jews : gendered perspectives on settlement and return / by Steven J. Gold -- Building the Russian-Jewish Community in North America : the case of Boston / by Irene Belozersky and Ariel Borschevsky -- Layered identities : Jews from the former Soviet Union in Toronto / by Rina Cohen -- Soviet Jews in the new/old homeland : between integration and separatism / by Larissa Remennick -- Recollection and relocation in immigration : Russian-Jewish immigrants "normalize" their anti-Semitic experiences / by Tamar Rapoport, Edna Lmosky-Feder, and Angelika Heider -- Only renowned immigrants are mentioned in the press : German media and the Russian-Jewish minority from 1990 to 2005 / by Olaf Gloeckner -- Foreigners in wonderland : a critical view of the expectations and experiences among Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Berlin / by Judith Kessler -- Between ethnocentrism, Israeli-centrism, and cosmopolitism : analyzing the national identity of the Russian-speaking Jewry / by Alek Epstein and Nina Kheimets.