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Food for Thought Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany

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Produktdetails

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

04.10.2010

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Verlag

Campus

Seitenzahl

451

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22/14,1/3,2 cm

Gewicht

600 g

Auflage

1

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-593-39252-3

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

04.10.2010

Abbildungen

zahlreiche Farbabbildungen

Verlag

Campus

Seitenzahl

451

Maße (L/B/H)

22/14,1/3,2 cm

Gewicht

600 g

Auflage

1

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-593-39252-3

Herstelleradresse

Beltz Verlagsgruppe GmbH & Co. KG
Werderstr. 10
69469 Weinheim
DE
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  • Produktbild: Food for Thought
  • Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments 11

    1 Migration collages: Studying Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany 15
    1.1 Migration and socio-cultural affiliations 15
    1.2 The research approach 17
    1.3 Research questions 20
    1.4 Research methods 22
    1.5 Comparative view of the two populations 33
    1.6 General characteristics of the investigated groups 34
    1.7 Transporting Jewish identity from the SU 39
    1.8 Overview of the book 41

    2 Transnationalism and capitalism: Migrants from the former
    Soviet Union and their experiences in Germany and Israel 45
    2.1 The Soviet kind of capitalism: Soviet spirituality vs. Western materialism 50
    2.2 Post-Soviet capitalism on food commodities 56
    2.3 "Arrival on a new planet" 67
    2.4 Reviving Soviet knowledge about the social reality of life in the capitalist system 80
    2.5 "The Russia we had always dreamed of"-some conclusions 89

    3 "Chocolates without history are meaningless": Pre- and post-migration consumption 95
    3.1 Soviet "hunting and gathering" 98
    3.2 The classic Soviet recipe rook: On the Tasty and Healthy Food Book 107
    3.3 Social skills of post-migration consumption 114
    3.4 Alternative ways of procurement and free consumption 123
    3.5 Contested procurement 141

    4 Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: Images of imaginary home, homeland, and identity consolidation 142
    4.1 Visibility of Russian food stores in Israel and Germany 146
    4.2 Image of the hostess in the Russian food stores 150
    4.3 Longing for the REAL home via food 153
    4.4 Commercial promotion of nostalgia 164
    4.5 Images of the Soviet paradise 172
    4.6 Image of Soviet proletarian food or the imaginary proletarian home 178
    4.7 Images of the Soviet empire and the Soviet political iconography of food post-emigration 184
    4.8 Nationalized Russia in food products and gastronomic Slavophilism of ex-citizens abroad 200
    4.9 Meanings of Russian food stores in Israel and Germany 211

    5 Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: Different national
    symbolic participations and virtual transnational enclave 219
    5.1 Special national key symbols crossing borders and
    manifestations of identity: The symbolic meaning of
    pork and caviar in different national contexts 222
    5.2 Pork 226
    5.3 Caviar 248
    5.4 Mixed national identities in Russian food stores in Israel and Germany 256
    5.5 Reconsidering the immigrant enterprise: From traditional,
    closed ethnic business toward a virtual transnational enclave 268

    6 Transjewish affiliation: The construction of ethnicity by
    Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany 273
    6.1 The "ethnicity" and ethnization processes of Russian-speaking Jews 275
    6.2 Component One: Innate ethnicity and visible Otherness and its fate abroad 278
    6.3 Component Two: Significant Others in the SU and abroad 293
    6.4 Component Three: Suspect loyalty: Soviet Jewish Otherness through affiliation with Israel 313
    6.5 Component Four: Affiliation with Soviet Russian cultural elite 315
    6.6 Conclusion 319
    6.7 Triple Trans-Jewish affiliation 321

    7. Winners once a year? Making sense of WWII and the Holocaust as part of a transnational biographic experience 328
    7.1 Celebration of Den' Pobedy Victory Day 329
    7.2 Conflicting meanings of May 8th and 9th 332
    7.3 Soviet victors' narrative and the theme of the Holocaust in the SU 335
    7.4 Transnational praxis of the everyday knowledge after migration to Germany 347
    7.5 Proud of the Soviet victory, offended by the Soviet state or marginalized winners 354
    7.6 Challenging the victory narrative and burdensome identities 357
    7.7 The Outsider perspective 362
    7.8 Principally Others: Media discourse about the topic 364
    7.9 Shifting of the collective "we:" Media presentation of Germans and settled Jews as the symbolical "we" compared
    to "Russians" 366
    7.10 "Without us Israel would not have come into existence. We won the war and put an end to the Holocaust…" 368
    7.11 Comparative conclusions of different modifications of the original narratives in Israel and Germany 369

    8 "Will you prepare gefillte fish for Christmas?" Paradoxes of living in simultaneously contested social worlds 373
    8.1 Reconsidering identities, reproducing stereotypes, coping with hierarchies 374
    8.2 Alienation, home, and homeland: "Why not Israel?" Self-positioning of Russian-speaking Jews in Germany and Israel 389
    8.3 Conclusion 408
    8.4 Contributions of this research 410
    8.5 Further development 413

    Bibliography 415
    Index 436