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- Sweet Burdens: Welfare and Communality among Russian Jews in Germany
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- 2015
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-24
- Part 1: Spaces of Consumption
- pp. 25-28
- 1. Building Projects of Well-Being
- pp. 29-42
- 2. Khaliava
- pp. 43-60
- Part II: Work and Employment
- 4. Working Nonworkers
- pp. 79-98
- 5. The Sotsial’shchik
- pp. 99-116
- 6. Work as a Line of Demarcation
- pp. 117-130
- Part III: Reinventing Tradition
- pp. 131-134
- 7. Playing at Being Jews
- pp. 135-154
- 8. Haunting Images
- pp. 155-168
- 9. The Instrumentalization Trope
- pp. 169-182
- Conclusion
- pp. 183-192
- References
- pp. 203-230
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438455877
MARC Record
OCLC
907640859
Pages
246
Launched on MUSE
2015-04-24
Language
English
Open Access
No
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