Overview
- Explores how Jewish communities in Germany were impacted by the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union between 1990 and 2005
- Focuses on key areas of tension and conflict between existing community members and new Russian-speaking arrivals
- Considers the nature of Jewish identity in Germany, drawing on a wide range of source material from Jewish and German newspapers to Bundestag debates to the opinions of prominent Jewish commentators
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Migration History (PSMH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores the transformative impact that the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Germany had on Jewish communities from 1990 to 2005. It focuses on four points of tension and conflict between existing community members and new Russian-speaking arrivals. These raised the fundamental questions: who should count as a Jew, how should Jews in Germany relate to the Holocaust, and who should the communities represent? By analyzing a wide range of source material, including Jewish and German newspapers, Bundestag debates and the opinions of some prominent Jewish commentators, Joseph Cronin investigates how such conflicts arose within Jewish communities and the measures taken to deal with them. This book provides a unique insight into a Jewish population little understood outside Germany, but whose significance in the post-Holocaust world cannot be underestimated.
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About the author
Joseph Cronin is Lecturer in Modern German History at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has published on European-Jewish identities and migration in the twentieth century.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Russian-Speaking Jews in Germany’s Jewish Communities, 1990–2005
Authors: Joseph Cronin
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31273-2
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31272-5Published: 11 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31273-2Published: 29 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4358
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4366
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 102
Topics: History of Germany and Central Europe, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Migration, History of Religion, History of World War II and the Holocaust