Coming Home provides an extraordinary glimpse into the social and cultural integration of a unique category of immigrants—the returning Diaspora. During the 1990s Russian-speaking Jews and Germans returned to their respective historic homelands. Nelly Elias explores the social and cultural adaptation of these two groups by focusing on the roles played by their native language—Russian—and the language used by the media of each country. Based on one hundred in-depth interviews conducted with immigrants now living in both Israel and Germany, Coming Home considers media use to be an inseparable part of an immigrant’s adaptation strategy, simultaneously reflecting construction of a new social and cultural identity while also preserving their original cultural identities.
Table of Content
Foreword by Hanna Herzog
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Immigrants and the Mass Media
1. Coming Home? FSU Immigrants in Israel and Germany
2. Russian-Language Media in Israel and Germany
3. Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel
4. Media and Returning Diaspora in Germany
5. Media and Immigrants’ Adaptation in a Comparative Perspective
Appendix
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the author
Nelly Elias is Lecturer in Mass Communications at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
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