Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait

by Maria N. Yelenevskaya and Larisa Fialkova

A groundbreaking study of personal stories from ex-Soviet immigrants in Israel, bringing together scholarship in anthropology, sociology, linguistics, semiotics, and social psychology.

In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews immigrated to Israel at an unprecedented rate, bringing about profound changes in Israeli society and the way immigrants understood their own identity. In this volume ex-Soviets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814331696
• ISBN13: 9780814331699
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 9.3"