Secular-Believing Diasporic Jews: The Grassroots Theology of Paul Simon and Leonard Cohen by Hagar Lahav

Subjects: “…Jewish diaspora…”
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The Politics of Waiting: Transnational Identity and Exile in Achy Obejas’ Ruins by Kevin Concannon

“…-Cuban expatriate experience within the broader Jewish diaspora. By constructing this alternative history, Obejas expresses the U.S. expatriate connection to Cuba not in terms of remittances or political debate, but within the larger context of diaspora, separation and forgetfulness, and by doing so, defines Cuban identity through a transnational prism of historical difference and denial.…”
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« Histoires perturbées, passés retrouvés », une introduction by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). …”
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The Opportunistic Nature of Soviet Jewish Policy by Boris N. Mironov

“…Jews were discriminated against in the pre-war period, primarily due to the fierce struggle for political power at the top, and in the post-war period - due to the transition of a significant part of the Jewish diaspora into opposition to the Soviet regime and a continued desire to emigrate. …”
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Introducing “Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts” by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our aim has been to interrogate relationships between oral histories and amateur histories with more formal written archives and historiography in a series of disrupted settings: evictions in colonial and apartheid west Namibia (SULLIVAN); memories and historical interpretations of the Egyptian Jewish diaspora (BAUSSANT); the evacuation of children in Second World War France (DODD); recent maritime exodus of migrants from Africa (OTELE); and rupture from a hegemonic imperial-nostalgic narrative in Portugal (DOS SANTOS). …”
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