LIVING IN GERMANY, LONGING FOR ISRAEL

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Notes

1. The research for this article was supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation, within the framework of the Ignatz Bubis Memorial Scholarship Fund in Jewish Studies, 2004. A preliminary version was presented at the conference “Russian Jews in Germany in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries,” University of Sussex, Brighton, December 13–14, 2004.

2. Becker, “Migration and Recognition;” Ostow, “Post‐Soviet Immigrants.”

3. Dietz, “German and Jewish Migration;” Laurence, “(Re)constructing Community in Berlin;” Schoeps, “Russian Jewish Immigration to Germany;” Tress, “Soviet Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany;” Tress, “Welfare State Type.”

4. Tolts, “Russian Jewish Migration.”

5. Becker, “Migration and Recognition;” Darieva, “Managing Identity;” Dietz, “German and Jewish Migration;” Tress, “Soviet Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany.”

6. Dietz, “German and Jewish Migration.”

7. Remennick, “Idealists Headed to Israel.”

8. Pfetsch, “In Russia We Were Germans.”

9. Andreesen, “New Russian‐Language Newspapers;” Darieva, “Managing Identity.”

10. Elias, “From the Former Soviet Union to Israel and Germany.”

11. Dietz, “German and Jewish Migration.”

12. Kapphan, “Russian Entrepreneurs in Berlin.”

13. Becker, “Migration and Recognition.”

14. Ibid., 26

15. Ostow, “Post‐Soviet Immigrants.”

16. Berger, Media and Communication; Lindlof, Qualitative Communication.

17. Similar findings were found by Roberman, “Recontructing Israeli National Narrative,” regarding the centrality of the Second World War in the personal narratives of old Russian immigrants in Israel. According to Roberman, upon their arrival in Israel, the elderly immigrants launched their struggle for belonging to the Israeli state and nation. In this struggle, they mobilized their identity as soldiers in the Second World War, thus constructing a narrative of combat and sacrifice for the sake of the Jewish people and the Israeli homeland.

18. See, for example, Remennick, “Idealists Headed to Israel.”

19. See, for example, Remennick (“Idealists Headed to Israel”), who limited the age of her interviewees to 65.

20. Similarly, a few respondents in Remennick’s research perceived their living in Germany as a national and religious mission of reinstating Jewish community there.

21. See, for example, Ben‐Rafael et al., “Identity and Language;” Lissak and Leshem, “The Russian Intelligentsia in Israel;” Trier, “Reversed Diaspora.”

22. Anderson, Imagined Communities.

23. Remennick, “Idealists Headed to Israel.”

24. Becker, “Migration and Recognition;” Darieva, “Managing Identity;” Dietz, “German and Jewish Migration;” Remennick, “Idealists Headed to Israel.”

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Nelly Elias

Her research interests are in the area of mass communication and immigration, with special emphasis on immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Germany and Israel.