Description: Examines the lives of recent Russian-Jewish immigrants in Germany.
Brief description: Sveta Roberman> a research fellow at the Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also a lecturer at the Gordon College of Education in Haifa.
Review Quotes:
"The contribution of Sweet Burdens lies in its engagement with theories of high- or post-modernity, particularly as they interlace with the trope of the consumer-citizen and with critical anthropological analyses of late Soviet culture. The book is bound to attract readers who are students and scholars of post-Soviet Jewish migration and contemporary Germany society, particularly for its analytical frame and ethnographic descriptions." -- Anthropology of East Europe Review
"...a valuable addition to the scholarship on post-soviet immigration to the west and an insightful ethnographic study of post-soviet subjectivity." -- Slavic Review
"...[a] beautifully written book." -- Russian Review