Russian and hebrew literature in cross mirrors

This chapter discusses the significance of a trans-national Russian Jewish’ community in light of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It talks about what might be viewed as the re-consolidation of Soviet Jewish or rather now Russian Jewish’ identity from the post-modern variety of post-Soviet Jewish experience. In the 1960s and 1970s, emigration at least in the eyes of Israeli and North American Jewish activists, as well as of thousands of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) - became the logical end result of the Soviet Jews’ struggle for their Jewish identity. The Israeli and Jewish cultural centres that now span the territory of the former Soviet Union serve as attractive meeting places for the Jews of each region. As a result of emigration and immigration, as well as political changes from within, former Soviet Jews now span the globe and make their homes in dozens of independent countries.