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Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taking place against the gradual inflation of a collective identity among Russian-speaking Jews that survived the first post-Soviet decade. The infrastructure for this new entity is provided by new local (or ethno-civic) groups of East European Ashkenazi Jewry with specific communal, subcultural, and ethno-political identities ("Ukrainian," "Moldavian," or "Russian" Jews, e.g.). These communities demonstrate a changing balance of identification between their countries of residence and the "transnational Russian-Jewish community", and they absorb a significant number of persons of non-Jewish and ethnically heterogeneous origins as well. This book discusses identity, community modes, migration dynamics, socioeconomic status, attitudes toward Israel, social and political environments, and other parameters framing these trends using the results of a comprehensive sociological study of the extended Jewish population conducted in 2019-2020 by this author in the five former-Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan)

The two-year electoral marathon in Israel in 2019-2021 has made apparent not only the costs and distortions of local parliamentary democracy, but also a serious bone of contention in society concerning the norms, rules and understandings that function within the established at the dawn of Israeli statehood framework of the so-called secular-religious status. And, besides, in an indirect way, this disagreement relates to the understanding of the meaning — ethno-national or religious- that the supporters of various approaches to the idea of the Jewish character of the State of Israel put. In a sense, the symbol of this division was the community of the former USSR origin, which again, after a ten-year break, has become a critical factor in the internal political situation in the country and the focus of processes that have little in common with the traditional divide between the "right" and "left" flanks of Israeli politics. ; Двухлетний электоральный марафон в Израиле 2019–2021 годов сделал очевидными не только издержки и перекосы местной парламентской демократии, но и наличие в обществе серьезных разногласий по поводу норм, правил и пониманий, действующих в рамках сложившегося на заре израильской государственности так называемого светско-религиозного статус-кво. А также, в опосредованном виде, о понимании смысла — этнонационального или религиозного, — вкладываемого сторонниками различных подходов в идею еврейского характера Государства Израиль. Символом этого размежевания в каком-то смысле была община выходцев из бывшего СССР, которая вновь, после десятилетнего перерыва, стала критическим фактором внутриполитического расклада в стране и фокусом процессов, имеющих мало общего с традиционным размежеванием между «правыми» и «левым» флангом израильской политики.