Food for thought : transnational contested identities and food practices of Russian-speaking Jewish migrants in Israel and Germany /
Bernstein, Julia,1972-
Frankfurt ; New York : Campus,
c2010.
Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Frankfurt, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references ([415]-435) and index.
Migration collages: studying Russia-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany -- Transnationalism and capitalism: migrants from the former Soviet Union and their experiences in Germany and Israel -- "Chocolates without history are meaningless": pre- and post-migration consumption -- Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: images of imaginary home, homeland, and identity consolidation -- Russian food stores in Israel and Germany: different national symbolic participations and virtual transnational enclave -- Transjewish affiliation: the construction of ethnicity by Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and Germany -- Winners once a year? Making sense of WWII and the Holocaust as part of a transnational biographic experience -- "Will you prepare gefillte fish for Christmas?" Paradoxes of living in simultaneously contested social worlds.
Jews, Russian
Jews, Russian
Jews, Russian
Jews, Russian
Jewish cooking.