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Table of content

• BEGINN
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Migration collages: Studying Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany
• 1.1 Migration and socio-cultural affiliations
• 1.2 The research approach
• 1.3 Research questions
• 1.4 Research methods
• 1.5 Comparative view of the two populations
• 1.6 General characteristics of the investigated groups
• 1.7 Transporting Jewish identity from the SU
• 1.8 Overview of the book
• 2 Transnationalism and capitalism: Migrants from the former Soviet Union and their experiences in Germany and Israel
• 2.1 The Soviet kind of capitalism: Soviet spirituality vs. Western materialism
• 2.2 Post-Soviet capitalism on food commodities
• 2.3 “Arrival on a new planet†“
• 2.4 Reviving Soviet knowledge about the social reality of life in the capitalist system
• 2.5 “The Russia we had always dreamed of††”some conclusions
• 3 “Chocolates without history are meaningless: †Pre- and post-migration consumption
• 3.1 Soviet “hunting and gathering†
• 3.2 The classic Soviet recipe book: On the Tasty and Healthy Food Book
• 3.3 Social skills of post-migration consumption
• 3.4 Alternative ways of procurement and free consumption
• 3.5 Contested procurement
• 4 Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: Images of imaginary home, homeland, and identity consolidation
• 4.1 Visibility of Russian food stores in Israel and Germany
• 4.2 Image of the hostess in the Russian food stores
• 4.3 Longing for the REAL home via food
• 4.4 Commercial promotion of nostalgia
• 4.5 Images of the Soviet paradise
• 4.6 Image of Soviet proletarian food or the imaginary proletarian home
• 4.7 Images of the Soviet empire and the Soviet political iconography of food post-emigration
• 4.8 Nationalized Russia in food products and gastronomic Slavophilism of ex-citizens abroad
• 4.9 Meaning of Russian food stores in Israel and Germany
• 5 Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: Different national symbolic participations and virtual transnational enclave
• 5.1 Special national key symbols crossing borders and manifestations of identity: The symbolic meaning of pork and caviar in different national contexts
• 5.2 Pork
• 5.3 Caviar
• 5.4 Mixed national identities in Russian food stores in Israel and Germany
• 5.5 Reconsidering the immigrant enterprise: From traditional, closed ethnic business toward a virtual transnational enclave
• 6 Transjewish affiliation: The construction of ethnicity by Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany
• 6.1 The “ethnicity† and ethnization processes of Russian-speaking Jews
• 6.2 Component One: Innate ethnicity and visible Otherness and its fate abroad
• 6.3 Component Two: Significant Others in the SU and abroad
• 6.4 Component Three: Suspect loyalty: Soviet Jewish Otherness through affiliation with Israel
• 6.5 Component Four: Affiliation with Soviet Russian cultural elite
• 6.6 Conclusion
• 6.7 Triple Trans-Jewish affiliation
• 7 Winners once a year? Making sense of WWII and the Holocaust as part of a transnational biographic experience
• 7.1 Celebration of Den†™ Pobedy Victory Day
• 7.2 Conflicting meanings of May 8th and 9th
• 7.3 Soviet victors†™ narrative and the theme of the Holocaust in the SU
• 7.4 Transnational praxis of the everyday knowledge after migration to Germany
• 7.5 Proud of the Soviet victory, offended by the Soviet state or marginalized winners
• 7.6 Challenging the victory narrative and burdensome identities
• 7.7 The Outsider perspective
• 7.8 Principally Others: Media discourse about the topic
• 7.9 Shifting of the collective “we:† Media presentation of Germans and settled Jews as the symbolical “we† compared to “Russians†
• 7.10 “Without us Israel would not have come into existence. We won the war and put an end to the Holocaust…†
• 7.11 Comparative conclusions of different modifications of the original narratives in Israel and Germany
• 8 “Will you prepare gefillte fish for Christmas?† Paradoxes of living in simultaneously contested social worlds243
• 8.1 Reconsidering identities, reproducing stereotypes, coping with hierarchies
• 8.2 Alienation, home, and homeland: “Why not Israel?† Self-positioning of Russian-speaking Jews in Germany and Israel
• 8.3 Conclusion
• 8.4 Contributions of this research
• 8.5 Further development
• Bibliography
• Index