Building a Diaspora (International Comparative Social Studies) [Hardcover]

Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Author), Mikhail Lyubansky (Author), Olaf Glockner (Author), Paul Harris (Author), Julius Schoeps (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2006 | ISBN-10: 9004153322 | ISBN-13: 978-9004153325

This book investigates the Russian-speaking Jews who recently settled abroad: a million in Israel, half a million in the USA and 2. in Germany. A comparative work by an international team of researchers, it delves, in true time, into the making of an exemplary contemporary transnational diaspora.

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About the Author

Eliezer Ben-Rafael is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Tel-Aviv. His main research interests focus on the sociology of Judaism, immigration, ethnicity and language.

Olaf Glöckner is a Ph.D. student in history at the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum, University of Potsdam. He specializes in contemporary Jewish Russian-speaking immigration to Israel and Germany.

Paul Harris is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Augusta State University. He is an observer of the German society with a special focus on immigration and public policy.

Yael Israel is a Ph.D. student in Sociology, University of Tel-Aviv. She specializes in sociology of religion and women studies.

Willi Jasper is Professor of 19th and 20th centurie German and Jewish Literature and Culture, University of Potsdam.

Mikhail Lyubansky is a clinical psychologist and a lecturer in Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests focus on racial and ethnic group relations.

Julius H. Schoeps is a Professor of Contemporary Jewish and German History, University of Potsdam, and the Director of Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum for the Study of European Jewry.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 374 pages
• Publisher: BRILL (October 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004153322
• ISBN-13: 978-9004153325
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,395,619 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mikhail Lyubansky was born in the former Soviet Union and emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1977. He is a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He writes primarily about race and restorative justice.