TY - BOOK ID - 80835858 TI - Sweet Burdens : Welfare and Communality among Russian Jews in Germany PY - 2015 SN - 9781438455877 1438455879 9781438455853 1438455852 PB - Albany, [New York] : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Immigrants KW - Jews KW - Jews, Russian KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Russian Jews KW - Social conditions. KW - Social conditions KW - Germany KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Emigration and immigration. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80835858 AB - Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question and negotiate their moral economy and civic culture vis-à-vis the host German state and society, on the one hand, and the Holocaust past, on the other. She approaches the immigrant-host encounter as one of many cycles of social exchanges taking place in multiple and diverse arenas. The book sheds light on a number of issues, including the moral economy of Jewish-German relations, immigrants' performances of civics and citizenship, modes of inclusion and exclusion, consumption and consumerism, work and the phenomena of unemployment and underemployment, the concept of community, and the dynamics and difficulties of reinventing Jewish identity and tradition. ER -