Sveta Roberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 648882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sveta Roberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sveta |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberman |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Managing the Risks of Schooling, Securing Middle-Class Belonging
A major sphere of action in which parents engage in the management of risk on behalf of their children-primarily through the gendered work of mothering-is that of education and schooling. This article explores the endeavors on the part of middle-class Israeli mothers hailing from three social-cultural groups-immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis, and Jewish Israelis-to manage the risks of schooling, as they perceive these …
Sweet Burdens
Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question and negotiate their moral economy and civic culture vis-a-vis the host German state and society, on the one hand, and the Holocaust past, on the other. She approaches the immigrant-host encounter as one of many cycles of…
Not to Be Hungry Is Not Enough
In its view of the contemporary world, social theory—and particularly its postmodern trends and proponents—attributes a dominant role to the realm of consumption and consumerism in shaping both individual lifeworlds and the system of social hierarchies as a whole. In this article, building on the case of middle‐aged to late‐middle‐aged post–Soviet Jewish immigrants in contemporary Germany and illuminating a particular condition that I call “conde…
Labour activation policies and the seriousness of simulated work
Labour activation is an integral part of neo‐liberal policies that attempt to tackle the problem of employment and employability in the context of the drastically changing institution of work. Reflecting the difficulty of sustaining old frameworks, labour activation, as this ethnography reveals, is anchored in circles of simulative performances of employability and work. People's motivations to work blur the boundaries between the ‘simulative’ an…
Impostors of themselves
In the early 1990s, Germany officially opened its gates to the immigration of Russian Jews as part of the politics of repentance and restitution for the Holocaust. The immigration of Russian Jews seemed to offer an opportunity to strengthen and revitalize Jewish life in the country, even to restore it to its pre-war scale and condition. For the Russian-Jewish immigrants, that task has proven a difficult challenge. Tracking the stumbling blocks an…
All That is Just Ersatz
In this study, I present the case of middle-age and late middle-age Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany, who are attempting to rebuild their employment biographies and construct identities of social worth and status in the new country but are constrained from entering formal salaried jobs and are thus pushed into alternative work schemes. I explore the everyday experiences of these subjects and analyze why the alternative wo…
Haunting images
Glancing at the Jewish spaces in contemporary Germany, an occasional observer would probably be startled. Since the Russian Jewish migration of the 1990s, Germany's Jewish community has come to be the third-largest in Europe. Synagogues, Jewish community centres, and Jewish cultural events have burgeoned. There is even talk about a "Jewish renaissance" in Germany. However, many immigrants claim that the resurrection of Jewish life in Germany is "…
From Exclusion to Inclusion
This study focuses on the case of 1.5 million Jewish soldiers who fought in the Allied Armies in WWII and explores its place in Israeli social memory. For decades the story of military combat and sacrifice of WWII Jewish soldiers was marginalized in the Israeli mnemonic narrative. Over the years, different groups of ex-servicemen living in Israel kept alive the memory of their involvement in the combat and contested its silencing and marginalizat…
Commemorative Activities of the Great War and the Empowerment of Elderly Immigrant Soviet Jewish Veterans in Israel
This study deals with the commemoration of the "migrating past" in a new country. The case in focus is the group of Red Army WWII veterans who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s. These elderly immigrant ex-soldiers turn to their combat past, the main symbolic capital in their struggle for belonging in the host country. Performing commemorative work that is embedded in the mnemonic praxis of Soviet veteran culture, the elderly immigrants construct …
Fighting to Belong
Focusing on a group of elderly immigrants from the former USSR living in Israel, this ethnographic study examines a matter that has received scant attention in the literature: immigration in old age and the complex relationship of older immigrants to the host country. Finding themselves in a situation of multiple marginality, these immigrants search for a means of belonging in their new country. In this particular group, a narrative of the past-t…
Fighting to Belong
Focusing on a group of elderly immigrants from the former USSR living in Israel, this ethnographic study examines a matter that has received scant attention in the literature: immigration in old age and the complex relationship of older immigrants to the host country. Finding themselves in a situation of multiple marginality, these immigrants search for a means of belonging in their new country. In this particular group, a narrative of the past-t…
Not to Be Hungry Is Not Enough
In its view of the contemporary world, social theory—and particularly its postmodern trends and proponents—attributes a dominant role to the realm of consumption and consumerism in shaping both individual lifeworlds and the system of social hierarchies as a whole. In this article, building on the case of middle‐aged to late‐middle‐aged post–Soviet Jewish immigrants in contemporary Germany and illuminating a particular condition that I call “conde…
Commemorative Activities of the Great War and the Empowerment of Elderly Immigrant Soviet Jewish Veterans in Israel
This study deals with the commemoration of the "migrating past" in a new country. The case in focus is the group of Red Army WWII veterans who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s. These elderly immigrant ex-soldiers turn to their combat past, the main symbolic capital in their struggle for belonging in the host country. Performing commemorative work that is embedded in the mnemonic praxis of Soviet veteran culture, the elderly immigrants construct …
Managing the Risks of Schooling, Securing Middle-Class Belonging
A major sphere of action in which parents engage in the management of risk on behalf of their children-primarily through the gendered work of mothering-is that of education and schooling. This article explores the endeavors on the part of middle-class Israeli mothers hailing from three social-cultural groups-immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis, and Jewish Israelis-to manage the risks of schooling, as they perceive these …
All That is Just Ersatz
In this study, I present the case of middle-age and late middle-age Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany, who are attempting to rebuild their employment biographies and construct identities of social worth and status in the new country but are constrained from entering formal salaried jobs and are thus pushed into alternative work schemes. I explore the everyday experiences of these subjects and analyze why the alternative wo…
Impostors of themselves
In the early 1990s, Germany officially opened its gates to the immigration of Russian Jews as part of the politics of repentance and restitution for the Holocaust. The immigration of Russian Jews seemed to offer an opportunity to strengthen and revitalize Jewish life in the country, even to restore it to its pre-war scale and condition. For the Russian-Jewish immigrants, that task has proven a difficult challenge. Tracking the stumbling blocks an…
Haunting images
Glancing at the Jewish spaces in contemporary Germany, an occasional observer would probably be startled. Since the Russian Jewish migration of the 1990s, Germany's Jewish community has come to be the third-largest in Europe. Synagogues, Jewish community centres, and Jewish cultural events have burgeoned. There is even talk about a "Jewish renaissance" in Germany. However, many immigrants claim that the resurrection of Jewish life in Germany is "…
Commemorative Activities of the Great War and the Empowerment of Elderly Immigrant Soviet Jewish Veterans in Israel
This study deals with the commemoration of the "migrating past" in a new country. The case in focus is the group of Red Army WWII veterans who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s. These elderly immigrant ex-soldiers turn to their combat past, the main symbolic capital in their struggle for belonging in the host country. Performing commemorative work that is embedded in the mnemonic praxis of Soviet veteran culture, the elderly immigrants construct …
Fighting to Belong
Focusing on a group of elderly immigrants from the former USSR living in Israel, this ethnographic study examines a matter that has received scant attention in the literature: immigration in old age and the complex relationship of older immigrants to the host country. Finding themselves in a situation of multiple marginality, these immigrants search for a means of belonging in their new country. In this particular group, a narrative of the past-t…
From Exclusion to Inclusion
This study focuses on the case of 1.5 million Jewish soldiers who fought in the Allied Armies in WWII and explores its place in Israeli social memory. For decades the story of military combat and sacrifice of WWII Jewish soldiers was marginalized in the Israeli mnemonic narrative. Over the years, different groups of ex-servicemen living in Israel kept alive the memory of their involvement in the combat and contested its silencing and marginalizat…
Haunting images
Glancing at the Jewish spaces in contemporary Germany, an occasional observer would probably be startled. Since the Russian Jewish migration of the 1990s, Germany's Jewish community has come to be the third-largest in Europe. Synagogues, Jewish community centres, and Jewish cultural events have burgeoned. There is even talk about a "Jewish renaissance" in Germany. However, many immigrants claim that the resurrection of Jewish life in Germany is "…
All That is Just Ersatz
In this study, I present the case of middle-age and late middle-age Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Germany, who are attempting to rebuild their employment biographies and construct identities of social worth and status in the new country but are constrained from entering formal salaried jobs and are thus pushed into alternative work schemes. I explore the everyday experiences of these subjects and analyze why the alternative wo…
Labour activation policies and the seriousness of simulated work
Labour activation is an integral part of neo‐liberal policies that attempt to tackle the problem of employment and employability in the context of the drastically changing institution of work. Reflecting the difficulty of sustaining old frameworks, labour activation, as this ethnography reveals, is anchored in circles of simulative performances of employability and work. People's motivations to work blur the boundaries between the ‘simulative’ an…
Impostors of themselves
In the early 1990s, Germany officially opened its gates to the immigration of Russian Jews as part of the politics of repentance and restitution for the Holocaust. The immigration of Russian Jews seemed to offer an opportunity to strengthen and revitalize Jewish life in the country, even to restore it to its pre-war scale and condition. For the Russian-Jewish immigrants, that task has proven a difficult challenge. Tracking the stumbling blocks an…
Sweet Burdens
Sweet Burdens presents a detailed ethnographic study of the lives of Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany over the past twenty years. Focusing on the first generation of adult immigrants, Sveta Roberman examines how they question and negotiate their moral economy and civic culture vis-a-vis the host German state and society, on the one hand, and the Holocaust past, on the other. She approaches the immigrant-host encounter as one of many cycles of…
Not to Be Hungry Is Not Enough
In its view of the contemporary world, social theory—and particularly its postmodern trends and proponents—attributes a dominant role to the realm of consumption and consumerism in shaping both individual lifeworlds and the system of social hierarchies as a whole. In this article, building on the case of middle‐aged to late‐middle‐aged post–Soviet Jewish immigrants in contemporary Germany and illuminating a particular condition that I call “conde…
Managing the Risks of Schooling, Securing Middle-Class Belonging
A major sphere of action in which parents engage in the management of risk on behalf of their children-primarily through the gendered work of mothering-is that of education and schooling. This article explores the endeavors on the part of middle-class Israeli mothers hailing from three social-cultural groups-immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis, and Jewish Israelis-to manage the risks of schooling, as they perceive these …
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Social science (4 works)