From Russia to Israel – And Back? by Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin

Author:Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2021-06-27T09:26:09.835000+00:00

Being Israeli Jewish in Russia and the CIS: Intermediate Summary

The Meaning of Jewishness

Answering the question of what it means to be Jewish in 2019, respondents had to choose no more than 3–4 parameters on a 14-point alternative scale. In 11 cases, these parameters ranked identical in the scale of priorities for both Jews with no Israeli ID and for immigrants from Israel. Both placed ethnocultural values ​​associated with national self-identity in the first three places: “a sense of belonging to the people”, “pride in Jewish culture,” and “the need to keep Jewish traditions, customs and culture”. Even more significantly, the weight of the first two of these parameters (for Israeli emigrants significantly higher than for local Jews) was observed in centers of the highest concentration of Israelis, cosmopolitan megacities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, plus in Ukraine where remains of the traditional culture of the Ashkenazi Jewry are more visible than in Russia.34

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