Criss-Crossing Identities: The Russian Jewish Diaspora and the Jewish Diaspora in Russia

Abstract

Any review and analysis of the issue of identity among—shall we call them Russian-speaking Jews? Russian Jews? Soviet Jews? Jews in or from the former Soviet Union?—is instantly complicated by problems that derive from recent political and demographic changes. “Soviet Jewry,” first conceptualized in the formative years of the USSR and then crystalized under Stalin’s regime into an immutable political-juridical identity, like the Soviet Union, is no more. Without an agreed-upon category for hundreds of thousands of people who lived at least part of their lives in what was the Soviet Union it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to discuss their “identity.”

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