Associate Professor of Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies and Author of Russian Talk: Culture and Conversat - Nancy Ries
Richly interdisciplinary in its methods and well grounded in a range of literatures from folkloristics to diaspora studies, Fialkova and Yelenevskaya's work makes an essential contribution to the growing scholarship on Russian immigrant communities in Israel, as well as to the anthropology of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. What is most compelling about this study is that the authors go well beyond uncovering patterns, themes, and fetishes of narrative (though these they explore well): they also actively question and skillfully analyze their interlocutors' own theories about language; Soviet, Russian, and Israeli mentalities, 'interethnic exchanges,' 'xenophobia,' and the symbolics of cultural geography."
Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Author of Petersburg in the Poetry of - Vladimir Khazan
Ex-Soviets in Israel provides a unique opportunity to 'hear' real voices of the Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel and trace cultural antecedents of their discourse. The authors have demolished the ice wall between the Russian and Western academic worlds. A valuable resource for experts and students alike, this book is a must for libraries in humanities and social sciences."
Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at Colgate University and Author of Witness to History: the Photographs of Y - Alice S. Nakhimovsky
This study was carefully conceived and executed. The authors are both well read in the academic literature and, as members of the community they are studying, well placed to follow and explicate the nuances in the subjects' narratives. The material that they have collected and interpreted is wide ranging and of extraordinary interest."
