• Focus and relevance: It is impossible to imagine the texture of Israeli, American and Canadian communities without the presence of Russian Jews and Jews born to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents. This “new Jewish diaspora” is often called the last great wave of immigrants. Although tremendously successful (think of the boy from Moscow who invented Google), Jews from the former USSR and their children have not shed the skin of either Russianness or Sovietness. • Structure: unputdownable and...
