TY - JOUR
TI - The situation, role and relevance of immigrants from former USSR in Israel – between Soviet and Jewish identity
AU - Kosiorek, Piotr
TI - The situation, role and relevance of immigrants from former USSR in Israel – between Soviet and Jewish identity
AB - 
	Immigrants from the former Soviet Union came to Israel under various circumstances motivated by political, economic, social and security factors. Their greatest number came to the Jewish State in migration wave of the 1970s and, above all, the „great Russian Aliyah” of the 1990s. Next numerous groups emigrated in 2000-2009 and 2014-2019. Also the number of Ukrainian Jews coming to Israel increasing due to the open Russian aggression in Ukraine. Expatriots from the former Soviet republics are another component of Israeli multiculturalism. A peculiar community among the Russian-speaking newcomers are the post-Soviet oligarchs, businessmen and billionaires, who have an influence on the socio-political life of the country, especially in the institutional sphere. Worth noting thing is the current tendency to combine Soviet and Jewish elements in the field of historical policy and to supplementing the Israeli historiography of the Second World War with Soviet components. The main objective of this article will be to analyze the role and importance of the Russian-speaking Jewish community in Israel. The text will be an attempt to answer the question to what extent and on what spheres the merge of two communities – local Israeli and immigrant can be observed.
VL - 2022
IS - Volume 16
PY - 2022
SN - 2082-7695
C1 - 2720-0825
SP - 247
EP - 268
DO - 10.4467/20827695WSC.22.014.16763
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wschodnioznawstwo/article/sytuacja-rola-i-znaczenie-imigrantow-z-bylego-zsrr-w-izraelu-miedzy-tozsamoscia-radziecka-a-zydowska
KW - Israel
KW - USSR
KW - Post-Soviet states
KW - demography
KW - migrations
KW - migratory waves
KW - aliyah