Dina (Diana) Zisserman-Brodsky Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications
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DINA (DIANA) ZISSERMAN-BRODSKY CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
• Personal Information
Address and telephone number at work:
Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Address and telephone number at home:
Jacob Polotsky, 21/9, Jerusalem, 9375617
972-2-6765633; 972-524831542
• Education
B.A and M.A. (direct track),Lomonosov Moscow State University, Journalism and Communication Studies, Department of Sociology of Mass Media
Name of advisor: Dr. AnrieVartanov
Title of thesis: Debates on Film Dramaturgy in the Journal “The Art of Cinema”
Ph.D: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Humanities, Russian and Slavic Studies (approved in February 1996).
Name of advisors: Prof. Jonathan Frankel and Prof. Anatoly Khazanov
Title of thesis: Ethnic Samizdat and Ethnic Politics in the USSR
• Employment History:
November 2008 – present:Kameah Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2007 – 2008: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, HebrewUniversity
2003 – 2007: Giladi Lecturer, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University
1998 – 2002: Lecturer-Researcher, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies,HebrewUniversity
1996-1997Research Fellow (post doctorate), Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Toronto, Erindale College
1996Visiting scholar, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, Universityof Toronto
1991-1995: Teaching Assistant, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University
1990-1993: Researcher, Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research, Hebrew University
1989-1990Research Assistant, Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research, Hebrew University
• Professional Activities:
2013- present: Teaching Committee, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2011- 2013: Seminar Committee, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2009-2011: Library Committee, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2008 –present: Doctoral Guiding Committee, Department of International Relations, Hebrew University
2004 –2008:Doctoral Guiding Committee, Departmentof Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University
2005: Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference “Russian-Jewish Cultural Connections in the 20th century,” Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
2000: Member, Organizing Committee (Moscow State University, Hebrew University, and Moscow Institute for Israeli Studies), First Moscow International Conference of Israeli Studies
Professional consulting
2000-2001:Open University, Tel Aviv,Russian edition of the course Israel in the First Decade, 1948-1958, vols. 1-4, (scientific advisor)
1994-2001:Short Jewish Encyclopedia (in Russian), vols. 7-10 (scientific consultant)
2003-2004: Red Lines in Israeli Democracy – scientific consultant,educational multimedia program (in Hebrew and English)at the Yitzhak Rabin Youth Hostel(The Jerusalem Foundation Martha Prize for Tolerance and Democratic Values in Jerusalem).
Membership in professional/scientific societies
1990- 2005: Israeli Association of Slavic and East European Studies
2000-present: Association for the Study of Nationalities
2011- Israeli Political Science Association
• Educational activities
COURSES TAUGHT AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
Ethno-Nationalism in Post-Soviet Societies (seminar, BA)
Russia’s Women: Between Tradition and Revolution (BA)
Russia and the European Union: Common spaces and Hindrance to Partnership (BA)
FSU Immigrant Communities in Politics and Civil Society of Israel(seminar, BA)
Self-determination, Ethno-nationalism, and Conflicts in the USSR and the Post-Soviet States (BA)
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Ethnic groups and Cultures in Russia (BA)
Dissent in the USSR (BA)
Jewish Women in Late Imperial Russia (BA)
Women in Russia: from Patriarchy to Emancipation (BA)
Ways and Paradoxes of Russian Feminism (MA)
The Rise of the Civil Society in the USSR (MA)
Ethnopolitics in the USSR (MA)
Law and Politics in the USSR (BA)
USSR in Crisis (BA, taught jointly with Dr. ZeevWolfson )
• Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships
1990-1992: Lev Zion Doctoral Scholarship,Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
1991: Golda Meir Award, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1993: Leah Goldberg Scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1995-1996: TheHerzl Fellowship, Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1996: CREES (Centre for Russian and East European Studies), University of Toronto, visiting scholar fellowship
1996-1997: Peace and Conflict Studies Program fellowship(hosting professor – Metta Spencer), University of Toronto, Erindale College
• Scientific Publications
Authored books
- D. Zisserman-Brodsky, Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union: Deprivation and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 (288pages).
Published reviews: DonaldSchwartz//Nationalism & Ethnic Politics;Winter2005, Vol. 11, 4:541-43; Gaziyev, Jamshid//Europe-Asia Studies;Nov2004, Vol. 56, 7:1093-94; Andrei P. Tsygankov //Slavic Review, 2005, vol. 64, 3:675; Natalia daragan, VremiaIskat’, no. 12, 2005 (in Russian);Stanley G. Paine//“EL NACIONALISMO Y EL COLAPSO DE LA UNIÓN SOVIÉTICA (in Spanish),”Revista de libros No 100, 31/3/2005; Steven Sabol // The Russian Review, 2006,vol. 65, 2:342-43; Geoffrey Hosking //Democratization,Jun2004, Vol. 11, 3:175; VictorMote//Canadian American Slavic Studies - Revue CanadienneAmericained'Etudes Slaves, 2008, vol. 42, 1:214-216;
2. J. Goldstein (chapters 1.1-1.7) and Zisserman-Brodsky, D. (chapters 1.8-1.13), Еврейскоенациональноедвижение: предпосылкииисторическийфон//The Growth of the Zionist Movement: Factors and Background. Историясионистскогодвижения: 1881-1914// History of Zionist Movement, 1881-1914, vol. 1.Tel Aviv: The Open University, 2004(194 pages, in Russian).
3.L. Praisman, D.Zisserman-Brodsky, D. Charny, G. Kazovsky, S. Baranovsky, I. Altman, A. Khazanov, V. Petrukhin, M. Kipnis, ИсторияевреевРоссии//History of Jews in Russia), Moscow: Lechaim, 2005; 2nd edition - Moscow: Lechaim, 2007, 725 pages [chapters 6, 14, 15, 17: “The Great Reforms of Alexander the Second and Jews” (pp. 169-199), “Jews in the USSR in 1945-1953” (556-599), “Jews in the USSR in 1967-1985” (pp. 615-648), “Jews in the Years of Perestroika: 1985-1991” (pp. 649-664)].
Editorship
1. L. Cohen, D. Zisserman-Brodsky (editors),ОтБазеля кИерусалиму, от идеологиикпрактике//From Basel to Jerusalem – From Ideology to Practice (in Russian). MidreshetHar Herzl, The World Zionist Histadrut, Jerusalem, 1995 (65 pages).
2.D. Zisserman-Brodsky (ed.), Историясионистскогодвижения: 1881-1914//History of Zionist Movement, 1881-1914 (in Russian). Tel Aviv: The Open University. Vol. 1 (units 1-2), 2004(350 pages).
3.D. Zisserman-Brodsky (ed.),Историясионистскогодвижения: 1881-1914// History of Zionist Movement, 1881-1914 (in Russian). Tel Aviv: The Open University. Vol. 2 (units 3-4), 2006 (336 pages).
4. D. Zisserman-Brodsky (ed.), Историясионистскогодвижения: 1881-1914//History of Zionist Movement, 1881-1914 (in Russian). Tel Aviv: The Open University. Vol. 3 (units 5-6), 2006.
5. D. Zisserman-Brodsky (ed.), Историясионистскогодвижения: 1881-1914//History of Zionist Movement, 1881-1914 (in Russian). Tel Aviv: The Open University. Vol.4 (units 7-8), 2006 (224 pages).
Chapters in collective volumes
1.V. Kogan-Iasnyiand D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Chechen Separatism”, in M. Spencer (ed.), Separatism: Democracy and Disintegration, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998, pp. 205-226.
2. D. Zisserman-Brodsky,“Квопросуогенезисесионизма”//"ExaminingtheoriginsofZionism".In O.Budnitsky, R. Kaplanov. A.Lokshin, V. Mochalova, D, Rubina (eds.), Российскийсионизм: историяикультура. Материалынаучнойконференции//The Russian Zionism: History and Culture, [Conference papers, in Russian] Moscow: The Jewish Book House, 2002, pp. 15-27.
3. D. Zisserman-Brodsky,“Изменениявизраильскомобществеиихвлияниенаразвитиеконцепцииправчеловекавстране”//“Social Change and an Evolution of the Concept of Human Rights in Israel.” In A. Epstein and A. Fedorchenko (eds.), ОбществоиполитикасовременногоИзраиля//Society and Politicsof ContemporaryIsrael, vol. 2, [Conference papers, in Russian], The Hebrew University of Jerusalem – The Open University, Israel, International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization: Gesharim, 2002, pp. 94-120.
4. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Нашапрограмма”//“OurProgram” inСионистскоедвижениепослесмертиГерцля//Zionist Movement after the Death of Herzl(in Russian). Tel Aviv: The Open University. Vol. 2 (unit 3), 2006, pp. 236-247.
Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientificjournals
1. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “The Politicization of the Environmental Issue within National Movements in the USSR,” Environment Policy Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 1990, pp. 19-26.
2. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Sources of Ethnic Politics in the Soviet Polity: The Pre-Perestroika Dimension.” Nationalities Papers, vol.22, no. 2, 1994, pp. 337-345.
3. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “The Politicization of the Environmental Issue within the Russian Nationalistic Movement”. Nationalities Papers, vol. 26, no. 4, 1998, pp. 677-686.
4. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “The Jews of Silence – the “Jews of Hope” – the “Jews of Triumph”: Revisiting Methodological Approach to the Study of the Jewish Movement in the USSR, Nationalities Papers, vol.33, no. 1, 2005, pp.121-140.
Unrefereed professional articles and publications
1. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, "Israel: Is Peace Still Possible?” Peace Magazine, Sept.-Oct., 1996, pp. 23-26.
2. J. Santa Barbara, D. Zisserman-Brodsky, et al., "The Great Cuba Debate,"Peace Magazine, May-June, 1997, pp. 5-9.
3. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “ЕврейскиеэтническиеобщинывСоветскомСоюзе“//“Jewish Ethnic Communities in the USSR”, Otsyideti, no.33, 1999, 23-27 [in Russian].
4. D. Zisserman-Brodsky “Юриспруденция”//"Jurisprudence” (paragraph on Israel), Краткаяеврейскаяэнциклопедия//Short Jewish Encyclopaedia[in Russian], vol. 10, 2001, p. 860.
5. D. Zisserman,ПравачеловекавИзраиле//The Human Rights in Israel.Te’ena, Jerusalem, 2001(15 pages); the first edition in 1998 (in Russian).
D. Zisserman-Brodsky,ВерховныйсудИзраиляипубличнаядискуссияоегофункциях//The High Court of Justice in the Israeli Political Discourse,Te’ena, Jerusalem, 2000, 15 (pages) (in Russian).
6. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, The Arab citizens of Israel, Te’ena, Jerusalem, 2002, 15 pages.
Book Reviews
D. Zisserman-Brodsky, Review of Doubly Chosen, by J. Deutsch Kornblatt. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 22, 2008.
D. Zisserman-Brodsky, Review of Lenin’s Jewish Question by Y, Petrovsky-Shtern. The Russian Review, vol. 70, no. 3, July 2011.
D. Zisserman-Brodsky, Review of Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia: An Analysis of Elite Political Discourse by M. Urban, Nationalities Papers, vol. 40, no. 6, 2012.
Political analysis of the Soviet/CIS and East European press published by the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Russian, Euro-Asian and East-European Research (The Hebrew University)
Soviet Union and the Middle East (1991):
1. Vol. 16, no. 4, 1991, Middle East Settlement.
2. Vol. 16, No. 5, 1991, Ethiopia.
3. Vol. 16, No. 5, 1991, Afghanistan.
4. Vol. 16, No. 6, 1991, Israel.
5. Vol. 16, No. 7, 1991, Ethiopia.
6. Vol. 16, No. 1991, Israel.
7. Vol. 16, No. 8, 1991, Turkey.
8. Vol. 16, No. 8,1991, Israel.
9. Vol. 16, No. 9, 1991, Israel.
10. Vol. 16, No. 9, Israel.
11. Vol. 16, No. 10, 1991, Israel.
12. Vol. 16, No. 11, 1991, Israel.
13. Vol. 16, No. 12, 1991, Afghanistan.
Commonwealth of Independent States and the Middle East (1992-1993)
14. Vol. 17, No. 1, 1992, Israel.
15. Vol. 17, No. 2, 1992, Israel.
16. Vol. 17, No. 3, 1992, Israel.
17. Vol. 17, No. 4, 1992, Israel.
18. Vol. 17,No. 6, 1992, CIS Jewry.
19. Vol. 17,No. 6, 1992, Anti-Semitism.
20. Vol. 17,No. 6, 1992, Israel.
21. Vol. 17, No. 7, 1992, Israel.
22. Vol. 17, No. 8, 1992, Israel.
23 . Vol. 17, No. 9, 1992, Israel.
24. Vol.17, No. 10, 1992, Israel.
25. Vol. 17, No. 12, 1992, Israel.
26. Vol. 17, No. 11, 1992, Israel.
27. Vol. 18, No. 7, 1993, Middle East Settlement.
28. Vol. 18, No. 12, 1993, Persian Gulf.
29. Vol. 18, No. 12, 1993, Egypt.
• Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars not Followed by Published Proceedings
Invited plenary lectures
D. Zisserman-Brodsky,“Ethnic Dissent, Samizdat and Their Contribution to the Reemergence of Nationalism.”February 9, 1996, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto (Ref. : Abstract by MirellaEberts, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto: Monthly Centre News, volume 1996, March 1996, pp. 3-4).
Presentation of papers at conferences
1. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Political behavior of the Russian-Speaking Immigrant Community in Israel.”Annual Conferenceof theIsrael Political Science Association, April 2011, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. [Ref.:
2. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Ordeal of Affinity: TowardsUnderstanding Political Behavior of the Russian-Speaking Community in Israel.”16th Annual World Convention of ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities), April 2011, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.[Ref.:
3. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “The Prospects for Democratization of Post-Putin Russia.” 15thAnnual World Convention of ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities), April 2010,Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.[Ref.:
4. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Violence in Chechnya” (discussant). 15thAnnual World Convention of ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities), April 2010, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.
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5. D. Zisserman-Brodsky,“Soviet-Jewish Identity: the Longue Durée” (discussant).
International Conference “The Jewish National Movement in the USSR: Awakening and Struggle, 1967-1989,” December 2007, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [Ref.:
6. D. Zisserman-Brodsky,“Methodological and Conceptual Issues in the Study of the Jewish Movement in the USSR.”The Second International Conference “Russian Literature and World Literatures,” March 2006, Bar-Ilan University,Ramat-Gan [Ref.:
7. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Conceptualizing Ethnonationalism: Inter-Group Comparison in Structuring Perceptions and Interpretations of Relative Deprivation.”10th World Convention of ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities), April 2005, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.
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8. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “Russian-Jewish Woman at the Crossroad of Cultures and Epochs.” International Conference “Russian-Jewish Cultural Connections in the 20th Century,” January 2005, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan[Ref.:
9. D. Zisserman,“עולי ברה"מ במבחן התרבות הפוליטית הישראלית”//“New Immigrants from the USSR and Israeli Political Culture.” Conference “‘Israeliness’ and ‘Russianness’: A Meeting of Cultures,” June 2002, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv [Ref.:
10. D. Zisserman-Brodsky,“‘From Zion to Zionism’: The Course for Russian-Speaking Students.” International Conference “Centers of the Russian Zionism: History and Culture,” October 2001, Center for Scientists and Teachers of Judaica in the Institutions.of Higher Education “Sefer” and the Jewish Agency, Moscow
11. D. Zisserman-Brodsky,"Development of the conception of Human Rights in Israel."
The First Moscow International Conference of Israeli Studies: “Society, Politics and Culture of Contemporary Israel,” September 2000, Moscow State University, Hebrew University, the Open University of Israel, and Moscow Institute for Israeli Studies [Ref.:
12. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, "Russian Conspiracy as a New Jewish Idea. Some Reflections on Contextually Motivated Value Orientations and Universalism of Symbolic Images in Ethnonationalist Ideologies.”5th Annual World Convention of ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities), April 2000, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York.
13. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, "Ethnocentrism in the Nationalist Movements in the USSR and CIS." International Conference “Extremism and Nationalism in Europe: Fifty Years after World War II,” April 1995, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
14. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “In Quest of a New Nationality Policy."International Conference “Changing the System: Reform in Russia and the Soviet Union,” January 1994, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
15. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, "Sources of the Ethnic Politics in the USSR."International Conference “Soviet Society in Turmoil,” January 1992,Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
16. D. Zisserman-Brodsky, "The Politicization of the Environmental Issues within the National Movements in the USSR."International Conference “Environmental Problems and National Tensions in the Soviet Union,” January 1990,Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
17.D. Zisserman-Brodsky, "Women in the Peace Movement."International Conference “Women of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union,” January 1987,Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Ref.: M. Kretzmer's review of the presentation: "Women Peaceniks," Jerusalem Post, 2.2.87).
Seminar presentations at universities and institutions
D. Zisserman-Brodsky, “The Jewish Movement in the USSR,” May 1996. Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the History of Israel, Institute of the Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University.
• Research Grants
D. Zisserman-Brodsky, Research Grant, “Jewish Women in Late Imperial Russia as Agents of Modernity.” The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewry, 2004-2005.
• Synopsis of research, including reference to publications and grants in above lists
After my graduation from the Moscow State University, in 1975 (my MA thesis was on Debates on Film Dramaturgy in the Journal “The Art of Cinema”) I started my studies towards PhD at the Academy of Science Art History Institute in Moscow (the Sector of Aesthetic Problems of Mass Communications). My topic was a comparative study of the concept of mass culture in the thought of Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. A paper in which I examined Kracauer’s methodological approach in exploring the connections between the aesthetics of film, the prevailing psychological state of the German collectivity in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time was presented by me at Institute’s seminar. At that time, Kracauer’s major works (published in German and English) had not been translated into Russian and were virtually unknown to Soviet researchers. I consider as extremely useful Kracauer’s theory that the "persistent reiteration" of pictorial and narrative motifs in films (both popular and elitist, both aesthetically “good” and “bad”) and other products of mass culture "marks them as outward projections of inner urges" and as an emblematic reflection of collective perceptions and propensities. In my later research on the ideologies and politics of the dissident ethnonationalist movements in the USSR I employed his methodological approach albeit in a modified form.
Soon after my immigration to Israel, I started work on my PhD thesis “Ethnic Samizdat and Ethnic Politics in the USSR” under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Frankel and Prof. Anatoly Khazanov. The choice of subject and my subsequent findings were somewhat discordant in the scholarly discourse of that time. The Soviet regime was still generally presumed to be stable, while the nationalities and the national were not considered the predominant political factor. As for dissent in general and ethnic dissent in particular, it was commonly regarded as playing a minor, if any, role in ideological and political developments in the USSR. (The fact that I was personally involved in the movement for civil rights in the Soviet Union and in the production of samizdat materials doubtless provided me with a distinctive perspective).My research investigated the rise and development of ethnic dissent, samizdat and their contribution to the reemergence of nationalism as a political force in the USSR. It was the first systematic comparative study of ethnonationalist ideologies developed in the period from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. Exploring dissident writings of diverse ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union through a close examination of various theories of nationalism my study bridges macro-theory with micro- and meso-politics. Focusing on the ways of mobilizing the nationalities in the USSR I tried to fill an epistemological gap by showing how the ethno-nationalist movements of the Soviet era helped to formulate programs of ethnopolitics. The newly emerged national movements played a key role in the eventual fall of the Communist regime and their programs were later adopted in many of the new states that seceded from the USSR.
From 1990-1993, I was a part of the Marjorie Mayrock Center for Soviet and East European Research Project dealing with news analysis of the CIS (Soviet) and East European press. As a member of the contributing staff of a monthly Commonwealth of Independent States and the Middle East (before 1992 - Soviet Unionand the Middle East) I have contributed about 30 articles focusing primarily on the Soviet press coverage of Soviet Jewry and Antisemitism, Israel and Middle East Settlement (see the List of Publications).
Since 1990 I have presented the results of my broader research on ethnopolitics and ethnonationalism in a number of publications including Nationalities Papers and the Environment Policy Review; in edited volumes; as well as in my monographic book Constructing Ethnopolitics in the USSR: Samizdat, Deprivation and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 .
My major academic focus for research is on investigating ethnopolitics, collective perceptions and the proclivities of ethnic groups. To a considerable degree, this interest has determined the direction (or sub-direction) of my research, which deals with the history and theory of Jewish nationalism focusing on the Jewish national revival in Russia/the USSR. I have presented the results of my work in the book co-authored with Prof. J. Goldstein The Growth of the Zionist Movement: Factors and Background (Tel Aviv: The Open University, 2004); in History of Jews in Russia (co-authored with L. Praismanet al. 2007; 2005) , in chapters of edited volumes (see the List of Publications); as well as in the article “The “Jews of Silence”—the “Jews of Hope”— the “Jews of Triumph”: Revisiting Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Jewish Movement in the USSR” published in Nationalities Papers (Volume 33, No 1, March 2005). I regard the latter article as contributing to the study of the Jewish movement in the USSR since it recasts two standard methodological approaches (shaped by “Zionist” and “totalitarian” narrative models) to the study of the Jewish movement in the USSR. I discuss the interaction between the transformed norms, grassroots activism, governmental policy, and decision making, paying particular attention to the ways that collective sentiment was translated into the public domain. I argue that opposition to the existing political order, as well as well as the “de-privatization” of nationalist sentiment constituted important determinants of the Jewish movement that emerged in the late 1960s, whereas during the 1940–1950s both of these fundamental elements characterizing nationalist movements were almost absent. I also argue that the rationale for a translation or non-translation of a personal or collective sentiment into the public space can be found in the sociopolitical and cultural feasibility of a projected movement. I propose to analyze the Jewish movement in the USSR as social process (namely, to integrate the concepts of ideology, belief, ritual, symbol, myth, and language into a framework for analysis of the movement), as well as to examine the Jewish movement’s narrative(s)—its origins, development, and transformation (since its very beginning in the late 1960s this movement has been documenting and interpreting its own history and developing various forms of memorialization).