Jewish Odesa : negotiating identities and traditions in contemporary Ukraine /

Jewish Odesa : negotiating identities and traditions in contemporary Ukraine /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sapritsky-Nahum, Marina, author.
Imprint:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2024]
Description:	xxi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The modern Jewish experience
Subject:	Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- History -- 21st century. Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Jews -- Ukraine -- Odesa -- Social life and customs -- 21st century. Jews -- Identity. National characteristics, Ukrainian. Nationalism -- Ukraine -- History. Odesa (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13527446

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Varying Form of Title:	Negotiating identities and traditions in contemporary Ukraine
ISBN:	9780253070104 0253070104 9780253070111 0253070112 9780253070128
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine explores the rich Jewish history in Ukraine's port city of Odesa. Long considered both a uniquely cosmopolitan and Jewish place, Odesa's Jewish character has shifted since the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained its independence. Drawing on extensive field research, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, examines how the role of Russian language and culture, memories of the Soviet political project, and Odesan's place in a Ukrainian national project have all been questioned in recent years. Jewish Odesa reveals how a city once famous for its progressive Jewish traditions has become dominated by Orthodox Judaism and framed by the agendas of international Jewish organizations embedded in a religiosity that is foreign to the city. Russia's war in Ukraine has forced Jewish identities with ties to Odesa to change still further"--
Other form:	Online version: Sapritsky-Nahum, Marina. Jewish Odesa Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2024] 9780253070128

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Jew in a Kippah
Historical Background: The Lost, the Revisited, and the
Re-created
Remembering the Past and Making Sense of the Present:
Narratives of Elderly Jews
Jewish Revival: Opportunities and Tensions
From Evrei to Iudei: Turning or Returning to Faith?
Asymmetric Cultural Encounters: Jewish Philanthropy
Missions and Revival on Display
"Jewish Is a Mode of Transportation": Between Home,
Homeland, and Diaspora
Odesa: A Jewish City?
Conclusion: Negotiating Traditions.