Larissa I. Remennick, Ph.D. · Larissa I. Remennick, Ph.D. C.V. and list of publications Current position: Professor and Chair (2002-2009; 2018--), Department of Sociology & Anthropology,

Larissa I. Remennick, Ph.D.

C.V. and list of publications

Current position: Professor and Chair (2002-2009; 2018--),

Department of Sociology & Anthropology,

Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel

Tel: 972-3-531-8691 (w)

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e-mail: [email protected]

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Education 1989 - Postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University, UK,

Department of Social Medicine and Community Health

Project title: Social Explanations of High Abortion Rates in

Russia

1988 - Ph.D. in Social Demography,

Institute of Sociology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Dissertation title: “The Association between Women’s

Fertility, Sexual History, and Reproductive Cancers:

An Interdisciplinary Study”

1983 - M.A. in Social Demography, Moscow University of

Economics, Informatics, and Statistics.

Positions in academic and research institutions:

In Israel (since 1991)

1994 – to date Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University

Senior Lecturer (tenured in 1999),

Head of the Graduate Program in Medical Sociology,

Head of the Graduate Committee (2000-2002),

Full Professor (April 2006)

Chair (2002-4; 2006-9; 2018-)

1992-1994 School of Public Health, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Research Fellow (part-time)

1992-1994 Department of Epidemiology, Sheba Medical Center,

Tel Ha-Shomer, Research fellow (part-time)

1993-1995 JDC-Brookdale Institute of Gerontology and Human Development.

Scientific consultant (part-time)

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In Russia:

1986-1988 Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Sociology,

USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

1980-1991 Department of Epidemiology & Prevention,

National Cancer Research Center, Moscow.

Positions from Research Assistant to Senior Researcher.

Languages:

English (fluent), Hebrew (fluent), Russian (first language)

Areas of expertise:

Immigration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism:

* International migration, immigrant integration, health and well-being

* Russian/Soviet Jewish community, migrations, and global diaspora

* Ethnicity, ethnic diasporas, and transnationalism

* Immigrant family and intergenerational relations

* Immigrant Generation 1.5

* Occupational mobility of immigrant professionals

Israeli Society:

*Immigration, ethnic relations, and multicultural dilemmas

*Gender, family, reproduction, and social policy

*Health and health care

Society and Health:

* Sociology and social demography of health, illness, and health care

* Gender aspects of health and illness; sexual and reproductive health

* Sociology and politics of fertility and family planning (especially new

reproductive technologies – IVF, prenatal screening, etc.)

Additional academic appointments:

2004 - Sociological Institute for Community Studies, Bar-Ilan

University, Israel (Director, 2006-2018)

Sociological Papers, peer-reviewed journal, Editor (2006-)

2004 - Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for Jewish-Gender Studies,

Brandeis University (Academic Board member)

2003 - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,

Harvard University (Associate)

Selected courses and seminars (undergraduate and graduate levels):

* Immigration and Ethnic Relations in Israel

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* International Migration: Comparative Sociological View

* Jewish Identities in the Changing World

* Selected Issues in Jewish Sociology and Demography

* Former-Soviet Immigrants in Israel and in the West:

Social Integration and Well-Being

* Soviet Jewry and Jewish Emigration in the 20th

Century

* Immigrant women: Family, Health and Well-Being

* Introduction to Social Epidemiology

* Gender and Health: Demographic and Psychosocial Aspects

* Sociology and Politics of Reproduction

* Sociology of Sexuality

* Cancer and Cancer Control through the Lens of Social Science

Visiting appointments

University of Potsdam and Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies

(Germany). Visiting Professor of Israel Studies (2014-2015)

Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College, New York (2009-10)

Shusterman Visiting Professor of Israeli Studies (AICE fellow)

Brandeis University (2004 – on)

Hadassah-Brandeis Institute – resident scholar and research associate

University of California, Davis (2004)

Sociology Department - Visiting Professor

Central European University, Budapest (2004-2006)

Departments of Sociology and Gender Studies

Lecturer in Summer Institute for Advanced Students and Young Faculty

University of Toronto (1997)

Lecturer, Departments of Behavioral Sciences and Russian & East European Studies

Supervision of graduate students (selected research projects):

Yael Segev Intimate Strangers: The Story of Scandinavian Volunteers

Married to Israeli Partners (Ph.D., ongoing)

Neta Roitenberg Cross-Cultural Encounter in the Medical Workplace: Israeli Nursing

Care as a Case Study (Ph.D., ongoing)

Noa Adi Gender-Related Ideology and Practices among Three Generations of

Immigrant women from Transcaucasia in Israel (Ph.D., ongoing)

Laliv Cohen Parenting, Work, and Career among Married and Divorced Israeli

Men (Ph.D. 2014)

Sharon Zaguri Health Beliefs and Practices among Middle-Aged Israeli

Women: The Role of Socio-Economic Status (Ph.D. 2011).

Dina Lache Hope and Action among American and Pilipino Immigrants

in Israel: A Comparative Ethnographic Study. (Ph.D. 2010).

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Einat Hollander A New Israeli Man? Changing Representations of Israeli Masculinity

in Cross-Generational Perspective (Ph. D, 2008).

Efrat Tillinger Coming of Age with Illness: Narratives of the Chronically Ill Who

Had Been Diagnosed during Adolescence (Ph.D., 2007).

Ella Koren Gender and Psychosocial Adjustment to Disability: A Comparative

Study among Israeli Disabled Persons with Injuries of Military and

Civil Origin (Ph.D., 2005).

Hila Haylion The Body-Identity-Emotion Triangle and Coping Strategies among

Israeli Women Undergoing Fertility Treatments (Ph.D., 2005).

Michal Ressin Gender and "Cardiac Careers" among Working-Age Patients:

The Analysis of Illness Narratives (Ph.D., 2004).

Selected Recent MA supervision

Natalia Grudinina From Atheism to ‘Scientific Religion’: Russian Immigrant

Adherents of the Science of Kabala Movement (MA, 2018)

Noa Tzur Returning Home: Re-Acculturation Experiences of the Israeli

Scientists after Doctoral/Postdoctoral Studies in the US (MA, 2017)

Maya Leahi Giving Birth at Home: An Ethnography or Israeli Women’s

Experiences (MA, 2016)

Maya Kaplan Russian Immigrant Students on Israeli Campuses: The Patterns of

Social Integration (MA, 2012).

Lilah Abrahami Social Relations of Work between Veteran Israelis and Russian

Immigrant Employees in a Medical Organization (MA, 2010).

Gila Shakhar "You Never Stop Being a Doctor:" The Stories of Russian

Immigrant Physicians Who Converted to Physiotherapy (MA, 2005)

Membership in professional associations:

Israeli Sociological Association

American Sociological Association

Israeli Family Planning Association (Board Member)

Professional Service

2013-2016 Member of Sociology Peer Review Panel at Israel Science Foundation

2012-2013 Chair, Sociology Peer Review Panel for the Bi-national US-Israel

Science Foundation (BSF)

2004-5, 2011 Member of Sociology Peer Review Panel for Israel

Science Foundation

2005 – now Editor, Sociological Papers, a peer-reviewed journal

Published by Bar-Ilan University

2000 – now - Editorial Board member: Journal of Ethnic and Migration

Studies, Social Science and Medicine (2003-2005); Ethnicities,

Reproductive Health Matters

1995 - now Peer reviewer for some 20 academic journals in the fields of Jewish

and Israeli Studies, Ethnicity and Migration research, Medical Sociology and

Women’s Health and Reproduction

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2000 - now World Health Organization, European Region

Adviser on reproductive and sexual health in Eastern Europe

1997 - now International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Europe

Member of the International Advisory Panel

1992-94 Editor of the professional quarterly of the Israeli

Family Planning Association in the Russian language

1993-96 Health Services Research Program, Brookdale Institute

of Gerontology and Adult Development, Jerusalem

1990-94 International Health Foundation (Brussels)

Regional adviser on women’s health projects in Russia

Post 1995 research grants and awards

2014-15 Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies,

University of Potsdam, Germany – research and teaching

2011 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Cultural

Diversity, Gottingen, Germany – a short-term research fellowship

2010 Brandeis Genesis Institute – evaluation study of the new Program

For Russian-Jewish leadership development

2009 American-Israeli Common Enterprise (AICE)

Grant for Shusterman Visiting Professorship in the year 2009/10

2007 German-Israeli Research Consortium on Immigration, funded by EU

2004-5 The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Scholarship

Women from the former Soviet Union as Immigrants in the

United States: Facets of Socio-Cultural Adjustment

2004 Faculty Research Grant of the Israeli Association for

Canadian Studies

Former Soviet Jews in Toronto: Sociological Portrait

2003 German National Academic Council (DAAD)

Social Integration among Russian Jewish immigrants in Germany

2000/03 The Israel Science Foundation

Russian Immigrants of the 1990s in Israel:

Transnational Tendencies and Cultural Separatism

1997/8 The Israel Science Foundation

The Role of Socio-Cultural Context in Shaping Abortion Experiences

and Aftermath: Russian Immigrants and Israeli Women Compared

1996 The Centre for Russian and East European Studies,

University of Toronto. A visiting scholarship.

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Project title: ‘Soviet Immigrants in Toronto: Health and Fertility-

Related Facets of the Acculturation Process’

1997 Faculty Enrichment Program grant of the Association for Canadian

Studies for the purpose of developing a new course including

Canadian content

1996 Israeli Cancer Society

Attitudes and Behavior Aimed at Cancer Prevention

among Russian Immigrant Women in Israel

1995 Israeli Feminist Network (‘Shdulat Nashim’)

The Policy and Practice of Family Planning in Israel:

A Critical Appraisal

Publications in the Russian language (1983-1991)

Three books on the social aspects of women’s health and sexuality in the former

Soviet Union; 15 articles in professional journals on the social epidemiology of

cancer, sexual and reproductive health.

The List of Publications in English

Google Scholar Citations Metrics

Publications listed: 131

Total citations 2770

Citations since 2013 1265

H-index total 31

H-index since 2013 19

i10 index total 53

i10 index since 2013 35

Books (as author)

Remennick, L. Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and

Conflict. Transaction - International Social Science Publisher (Rutgers University,

New Jersey). 2007. 410 pp. The book was reviewed in 10 major journals in the fields

of immigration, ethnicity, Jewish and post-communist studies.

Paperback edition was published in September 2012.

Remennick L. The Cancer Problem in the Context of Modernity: Sociology,

Demography, Politics. Current Sociology (special issue). Sage: 1998 (46:1), 150pp.

Current Sociology is a Journal of the International Sociological Association. This

work has been published as a single-author monograph.

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Books (as editor)

Remennick, L. (editor). Russian Israelis: Social Mobility, Politics and Culture.

Routledge/Taylor & Francis (UK), December 2011. 181 pp. The introductory chapter:

L.Remennick. Twenty Years Together: The ‘Great Aliya’ and Russian Israelis in the

Mirror of Social Research (pp.1-7).

Chapters in edited volumes

Remennick, L. Generation 1.5 of Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Israel and in

Germany: An Overview of Recent Research and a German Pilot Study. In: Ludmila

Isurin and Claudia Riehl (eds.), Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in

Young Immigrants: Russian Germans or German Russians? Amsterdam: John

Benjamins Publishing, 2017, pp. 69-98.

Remennick, L. Russian-Speaking Israelis in the Ethno-Social Tapestry of Israel. In:

Ben-Rafael, E. and Schoeps, J. (eds.). Handbook of Israel: Major Debates.

DeGruyter, 2016.

Remennick, L. The Russian-Jewish Diaspora at the Beginning of the Twenty-First

Century. In: Kim Knott and Seán McLoughlin (Eds.). Diasporas: Concepts,

Intersections, Identities, London, NY: ZED Books, 2010, pp.187-193.

Remennick, L. Between Reproductive Citizenship and Consumerism: Attitudes

towards Assisted Reproduction Technologies among Jewish and Arab Israeli Women.

Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram Carmeli (Eds.) Kin, Gene, Community:

Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis. Oxford and NY: Berghahn, 2010,

pp.318-339.

Remennick, L. Former Soviet Jews in the New/Old Homeland: Between Integration

and Separatism. In Takeyuki Tsuda (Ed). Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return

Migrations of the late 20th

Century, Chapter 8. Stanford University Press, 2009.

Remennick, L. The Place of Israel - Symbolic and Real - in the Life of Russian-

Soviet Jewry. Chapter 18 in: Danny Ben-Moshe and Zohar Segev (Eds.) Israel, the

Diaspora and Jewish Identity, Brighton & Portland: Sussex Academic Press (UK),

2007, pp. 286-301.

Remennick, L. Case Study in Transnationalism: Russian Jewish Immigrants

in Israel of the 1990s. In: R. Munz and R. Ohliger (eds). Diasporas and Ethnic

Migrants. Germany, Israel and Post-Soviet Successor States in Comparative

Perspective. London & Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2003, pp.370-384.

Remennick L. Women with a Russian Accent in Israel: Gender Aspects of

Immigration. In: Kelson, G. and DeLaet, D. (eds.) Immigration and Gender:

Implications for Social Policy. London: Macmillan, 1999, pp.163-185.

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Remennick L. Identity Quest among Russian Jews of the 1990s: Before and After

Emigration. In: Krausz E. & Tulea G. (eds) Jewish Survival: The Identity Problem at

the Close of the 20th

Century. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1998, pp.241-258.

Amir D., Remennick L., and Elimelech Y. Educating Lena: Women Immigrants and

‘Integration’ Policies in Israel. The Politics of Reproduction and Family Planning. In:

Lewin-Epstein N. et al. (eds) Russian Jews on Three Continents: Migration and

Resettlement. London: Frank Cass, 1997, pp.495-509.

Encyclopedia articles

Remennick, L. "Immigration and Gender." The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of

Gender and Sexuality Studies. Oxford, UK: Blackwell 2013-14. 3,000 words.

Remennick, L. "Diaspora", "Transnationalism", "Immigrant Women", "Immigrant

Generations," and "Return Migration". The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race,

Ethnicity and Nationalism. Oxford, UK: Blackwell 2013-14. 5,000 words.

Remennick L. "Diaspora" and "Transnationalism." New Blackwell Encyclopedia of

Sociology. NY & London: Blackwell, 2006 (reprinted also in the on-line edition,

2010).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Remennick, L. The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish? Israel Studies

Review 2019, 34(1): 88-109. DOI: 10.3167/isr.2019.340106

Remennick, L. and Prashizky, A. Subversive Identity and Cultural Production by the

Russian-Israeli Generation 1.5. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2018. DOI:

10.1177/1367549418810091

Remennick, L. and Prashizky, A. Generation 1.5 of Russian Israelis: Integrated but

Distinct. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Published online October 2018).

DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2018.1537212

Remennick, L. Choosing One or Being Both: The Identity Dilemmas of Russian-

Jewish Mixed Ethnics Living in Russia and in Israel. East European Jewish Affairs

2018, 48 (2): 118-138.

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Remennick, L. Silent Mothers, Articulate Daughters: The Two Generations of

Russian Israeli Women Doing Jewishness and Gender. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish

Women’s Studies and Gender Issues, 2018, No 32 (Spring): 58-76.

Khvorostianov, N and Remennick, L. Coercion, Good Will or Self-Interest? Soviet-

Style Volunteering in the Retrospective Accounts of Russian Israelis. Problems of

Post-Communism 65 (4): 284-295. (Online Feb 10, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2016.1276842

Khvorostianov, N and Remennick, L. ‘By Helping Others, We Helped Ourselves:’

Volunteering and Social Integration of ex-Soviet Immigrants in Israel. Voluntas:

International Journal of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations, 2016. DOI

10.1007/s11266-016-9745-9.

Prashizky, A. and Remennick, L. Weddings in the Town Square: Young Russian

Israelis Protest the Religious Control of Marriage in Tel-Aviv. City and Community

(ASA Journal) 2016, 15(1): 44-63. DOI: 10.1111/cico.12151.

Prashizky, A. and Remennick, L. Celebrating Memory and Belonging: Young

Russian Israelis Claim Their Unique Place in Tel-Aviv’s Urban Space. Journal of

Contemporary Ethnography, 2016 (May): 1-31. DOI: 10.1177/0891241616649235.

Cohen-Israeli, L. and Remennick, L. 'As a Divorcee, I am a Better Father': Work and

Parenting among Divorced Men in Israel. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 2015,

56: 535-550. DOI: 10.1080/10502556.2015.1080083.

Remennick, L. The Two Waves of Russian-Jewish Migration from the USSR/FSU to

Israel: Dissidents of the 1970s and Pragmatics of the 1990s. Special Issue Re-

imagining Diasporas and Generations (eds. M.L. Berg and S. Eckstein). Diaspora: A

Journal of Transnational Studies 2009, 18 (1-2): 44-66. Published in Winter 2015.

Khvorostianov N. and Remennick, L. Immigration and Generational Solidarity:

Elderly Soviet Immigrants and their Adult Children in Israel. Special Issue

Intergenerational Family Relations in the Multi-Cultural Society of Israel (ed. by

A. Lowenstein and R. Katz). Journal of Intergenerational Relations 2015, 13 (1):

34-50, DOI 10.1080/15350770.2015.992758.

Remennick, L. ‘We Do Not Own Our Children:’ Transformation of Parental

Attitudes and Practices in Two Generations of Russian Israelis. Journal of

International Migration and Integration (JIMI/RIMI) 2015, 16 (2): 355-376.

DOI 10.1007s l2134-014-0345-5.

Prashizky, A. and Remennick, L. Cultural Capital in Migration: Fishka Association

of Young Russian-Speaking Adults in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Journal of Intercultural

Studies 2014, 36 (1): 1-18. DOI 10.1080/07256868.2014.990364.

The Hebrew version is published in Sotsiologiya Israelit (Israeli Sociology) 2015, No

1: 121-146.

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Prashizky A. and Remennick, L. Gender and Symbolic Citizenship among Non-

Jewish Immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel. Citizenship Studies 18 (3-

4): 365-383. DOI 10.1080-13621025.2014.905276.

Remennick, L. Transnational Lifestyle among Russian Israelis: A Follow-Up Study.

Global Networks 2013, 13(4): 478-497.

Remennick, L. Professional Identities in Transit: Factors Shaping Immigrant Labor

Market Success. International Migration 2013, 51(1):152-168. Online publication

available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00733.x/full.

Remennick, L. Intergenerational Transfer in Israeli-Russian Immigrant Families:

Parental Social Mobility and Children’s Integration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration

Studies 2012, 38(10): 1533-1550.

Remennick, L. and Prashizky, A. Russian Israelis and Religion: What Has Changed

After 20 Years in Israel? Israel Studies Review 2012 (Summer), 27(1): 55-77.

Prashizky, A. and Remennick, L. Strangers in the New Homeland? Gendered

Citizenship among Non-Jewish Immigrant Women in Israel. Women’s Studies

International Forum 2012, Vol. 35: 173-183.

Remennick, L. The Russian-Jewish Transnational Social Space: An Overview.

Journal of Jewish Identities, Special Issue: Russian Diaspora (eds. R. Harris and A.

Ronell) 2011, Issue 4 No 1: 1-12.

Remennick, L. Twenty years Together: The ‘Great Aliyah’ and Russian Israelis in the

Mirror of Social Research. Introduction to the Special Issue. Israel Affairs, 2011,

17(1): 1-6.

Remennick, L. Exploring Intercultural Relationships: A Study of Russian Immigrants

Married to Native Israelis. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. Nov 2009, 40(5):

719-738.

Remennick, L. Subjective Health, Aging, and Menopause among Native and

Immigrant Jewish Women in Israel. Women and Health 2008, 47(1): 65-82.

Remennick, L. Contested Motherhood in the Ethnic State: Voices from an Israeli

Postpartum Ward. Ethnicities 2008, 8(2): 199-226.

Remennick, L. “Being a Woman is Different Here:” Changing Attitudes towards

Femininity, Sexuality, and Gender Roles among Former Soviet Women Living in

Greater Boston. Women's Studies International Forum, 2007, 30: 326-341.

Remennick, L. The Quest after the Perfect Baby: Why Do Israeli Women Seek

Prenatal Genetic Testing? Sociology of Health and Illness 2006, 28(1): 21-53.

Remennick, L. The Challenge of Early Breast Cancer Detection among Immigrant

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and Minority Women in Multicultural Societies The Breast Journal, 2006, Vol.12,

Suppl.1, S103-S110.

Remennick, L. Russian Jews in the Global City of Toronto: A Pilot Study of Identity

and Social Integration. Espaces, Populations, Sociétiés (Special Issue “Diaspora and

Metropolis”), 2006, No 1: 61-81.

Remennick, L. Resetting the Rules of the Game: Language Preferences and Social

Relations of Work between Russian Immigrants and Veteran Professionals in an

Israeli Organization. Journal of International Migration and Integration 2005, 6(1):

1-28.

Remennick, L. Immigration, Gender, and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Study

among 150 Immigrant Couples in Israel. Sex Roles 2005, 53 (11-12): 847-864.

Remennick, L. Cross-Cultural Dating Patterns on an Israeli Campus: Why Are

Russian Immigrant Women More Popular than Men? Journal of Social and

Personal Relationships 2005, 24 (2): 435-454.

Remennick, L. “Idealists Headed to Israel, Pragmatics Chose Europe.” Identity

Dilemmas and Social Incorporation among Former Soviet Jews Who Immigrated to

Germany. Immigrants and Minorities 2005, 23(1): 30-58.

Remennick, L. Work Relations between Immigrants and Old-Timers in an

Israeli Organization: Social Interactions and Inter-Group Attitudes.

International Journal of Comparative Sociology 2004, 45(1-2); 43-69.

Remennick, L. Language Acquisition, Ethnicity and Social Integration among

Former Soviet Immigrants of the 1990s in Israel. Ethnic and Racial Studies

2004, 27(3): 431-454.

Remennick, L. From Russian to Hebrew via HebRush: Inter-Generational

Patterns of Language Use among Former Soviet Immigrants in Israel. Journal of

Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2004, 24 (5): 431-453.

Remennick, L. Providers, Caregivers, and Sluts: Women with a Russian Accent

in Israel. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues, Special

Issue “Multiculturalism in the World of Jewish Women,” 2004, No 8 (Fall): 87-

114.

Remennick, L. The 1.5 Generation of Russian Jewish Immigrants in Israel:

Between Integration and Socio-Cultural Retention. Diaspora: A Journal of

Transnational Studies 2003, 12(1), 39-66.

Remennick, L. Language Acquisition as the Main Vehicle of Social Integration:

The Case of Russian Jewish Immigrants in Israel. International Journal of the

Sociology of Language 2003, 164: 83-105.

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Remennick, L. What Does Integration Mean? Social Insertion of Russian Jewish

Immigrants in Israel. Journal of International Migration and Integration 2003,

4(1): 23-48.

Remennick, L. Retired and Making a Fresh Start: Older Russian Immigrants

Speak about their Adjustment in Israel. International Migration, 2003, 41(5): 153-

173.

Remennick, L. Career Continuity among Immigrant Professionals: Russian Engineers

in Israel. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2003, 29(4): 701-721.

Remennick, L. “I Have no Time for Potential Troubles:” The Reasons for

Low Utilization of Israeli Breast Screening Services by Russian Immigrant

Women. Journal of Immigrant Health 2003, 5(4): 153-163.

Remennick, L. and Shakhar, G. You Never Stop Being a Doctor: The Stories of

Russian Immigrant Physicians Who Converted to Physiotherapy.

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Health, Illness and Medicine

2003, 7(1): 87-108.

Remennick L. Transnational Community in the Making: Russian Jewish Immigrants

of the 1990s in Israel. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2002, 28(3): 515-530.

Remennick, L. Survival of the Fittest: Russian Immigrant Teachers Speak about their

Professional Adjustment in Israel. International Migration 2002; 40(1): 99-121.

Remennick, L. Immigrants from Chernobyl-Affected Areas in Israel: The Link

between Health and Social Adjustment. Social Science and Medicine 2002; 54(2):

309-317.

Remennick, L. “My Life is One Big Nursing Home.” Russian Immigrant Women in

Israel Speak about Double Caregiver Stress. Women’s Studies International Forum

2001, 24(6): 685-700.

Remennick, L. and Hetsroni, A. Public Attitudes toward Abortion in Israel.

A research Note. Social Science Quarterly 2001, 82(2): 420-431.

Hetsroni A and Remennick, L. Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life in the Holy Land: Socio-

Economic and Attitudinal Correlates of Public Opinion towards Non-Vital Abortion

in Israel. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 2001; 13 (2): 194-205.

Remennick L. and Segal R. ‘Socio-Cultural Context and Women’s Experiences of

Abortion: Israeli Women and Russian Immigrants Compared.’ Culture, Health and

Sexuality 2001, 3(1): 49-66.

Gross R., Brammli-Greenberg S., and Remennick L. Self-Rated Health Status and

Health Care Utilization among Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Israeli Jewish Women.

Women and Health 2001, 34(3): 53-70.

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Remennick, L. Childless in the Land of Imperative Motherhood: Stigma and Coping

among Infertile Israeli Women. Sex Roles 2000, 43 (11/12): 821-841.

Remennick L. and Raanan O. Institutional and Attitudinal Factors Involved in Higher

Mortality of Israeli Women after Coronary Bypass Surgery: Another Case of Gender

Bias. Health 2000 4(4): 457-480.

Remennick L. ‘Women with a Russian Accent’ in Israel. On the Gender Aspects of

Immigration. The European Journal of Women’s Studies 1999, 6(4): 441-461.

Remennick L. Women of the ‘Sandwich’ Generation and Multiple Roles: The Case

of Russian Immigrants of the 1990s in Israel. Sex Roles 1999, 40(5/6): 347-378.

Remennick L.I. Preventive Behavior among Recent Immigrants: Russian- Speaking

Women and Cancer Screening in Israel. Social Science and Medicine, 1999, 48(11):

1669-1684.

Remennick L. Breast Screening Practices among Russian Immigrant Women in

Israel. Women and Health 1999, 28(4): 29-51.

Remennick L.I. and Ottenstein N. Reaction of Soviet Immigrants to Primary Health

Care in Israel. International Journal of Health Services 1998, 28(3): 555-574.

Remennick L. and Shtarkshall, R. Technology Versus Responsibility: Immigrant

Physicians from the Former USSR Reflect on Israeli Health Care. Journal of Health

and Social Behavior 1997, 38 (September): 191-202.

Remennick, L. Initial Experience in Sex Education for Adolescent Migrants from

ex-USSR to Israel. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 1997;

9(1): 57-67.

Remennick L, Amir D., Elimelech Y., Novikov I. Family Planning Practices and

Attitudes among Former Soviet New Immigrant Women in Israel. Social Science and

Medicine 1995, 41(4): 569-577.

Visser, A., Pavlenko I., Remennick, L., Bruyniks N., and Lehert, P. Contraceptive

Practice and Attitudes in Former Soviet Women. Advances in Contraception 1993,

9:13-23.

Visser, A., Remennick, L., and Bruyniks, N. Family Planning in Russia: Experience

and Attitudes of Gynecologists. Advances in Contraception 1993, 9: 93-104.

Remennick, L. Epidemiology and Determinants of Induced Abortion in the USSR.

Social Science and Medicine 1991, 33: 841-848.

Remennick, L. Induced Abortion as Cancer Risk Factor: A Review of

Epidemiological Evidence. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 1990,

44: 259-264.

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Remennick, L. Reproductive Patterns and Cancer Incidence in Women: A

Population-Based Study in the USSR. International Journal of Epidemiology,

1989, 18: 498-510.

Book reviews

The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel,

and Germany. Zvi Gitelman (ed.), New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016.

Forthcoming, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 2018.

“We Are Jews Again”: Jewish Activism in the Soviet Union. By Yuli Kosharovsky.

Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University

Press. Journal of Church and State, 2017.

Patient-Centered IVF: Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic, by Trudie Gerrits. NY:

Berghahn Books, 2016. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, DOI: 10.1111/maq.12378

The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union, by Yacov Ro’i (ed.). Baltimore: The Johns

Hopkins University Press, 2012, 450 pp. Shofar (2013).

Food for Thought. Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-

Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany, by Bernstein, Julia. Frankfurt:

Campus Verlag, 2010, 451 pp. Reviewed in: Anthropos 2012, No 107.

Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel, by Tsipy Ivry. Rutgers

University Press, 2010. Social Science and Medicine, 2011 73(12): 1789.

Cultural Globalization: A Users Guide, by J. Macgregor Wise. Oxford: Blackwell,

2009. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2010, 36(6): 1469.

Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel. Or, How the Polish Peddler

Became a German Intellectual, by Aziza Hazoom. University of California Press,

2008. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2010, 36 (6): 1469.

Immigrant Youth Who Excel: Globalization's Uncelebrated Heroes, by Rivka A.

Eisikovits. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2008. Journal

of Ethnic & Migration Studies, 2010, 36(4).

Coming Home: Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel and Germany, by Nelly

Elias. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. Israeli Media and Communications Bulletin, 2009.

Gesher, Russian Theater in Israel: A Study of Cultural Colonization, by Olga

Gershenson. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Published in Journal of Ethnic and

Migration Studies, 2006, 34 (1/2).

What Makes Women Sick? Maternity, Modesty, and Militarism in Israeli Society. By

Susan Sered. Hanover & London: Brandeis University Press, 2000. Published in

Women’s Studies International Forum, 2001, 24(3/4).

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Fertility Policy in Israel. The Politics of Religion, Gender, and Nation. By Jacqueline

Portugese. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Review published in the Bulletin of Israeli

Studies, Winter 2000.

Journal editing

Consulting Editor for "Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender

Issues" (Indiana University Press)

Special Issue “Women’s Health, Reproduction, and Body Politics” (#12, November

2006). Editing of this book-size issue and writing an Introduction (pp. 3-9).

Guest Editor of “Israel Affairs” Special Issue

“Twenty Years Together: The ‘Great Aliyah’ and Russian Israelis in the Mirror of

Social Research” January 2011 (v. 17 No 1). Selected to be published as a book

by Routledge, UK.

Editor of Sociological Papers (www.socpapers.org) special issues

- No 12 (2007) “Immigrant Scholars Write on Immigrant Experiences”

- No 13 (2008) “The Plurality of Contemporary Jewish Traditions”

- No 14 (2009) " Women in Israeli Judaism” - No 15 (2010) "From state Socialism to State Judaism: ‘Russian’ Israelis and

their Attitudes towards Religion"

- No 16 (2011) “The Emerging Second Generation of Immigrant Israelis”

- No 17 (2012/13) "Formal and Informal Jewish Education in Israel and the

Diaspora"

- No 18 (2014-15) "The Russian 1.5 Generation in Israel: Between Protest and

Belonging"

Selected invited lectures and papers at international academic meetings

(since 2010)

Generation 1.5 of Russian Israelis: A Collective Portrait. Immigration to Israel in

Historical Perspective. University of Hamburg, Center for the Study of German

Jewry. Hamburg, July 2019.

Intergenerational Solidarity and Support Flows between Parents and Adult Children

among Russian Israelis. European Society for Comparative Family Research Meeting,

Porto, Portugal, September 2018.

Coercion, Good Will or Self-Interest? Russian Immigrant in Israel Reflect on their

Soviet Volunteering Experiences. European Network of Post-communist Research,

Tartu, Estonia, June 2018.

Generation 1.5 of Russian Israelis: Integrated but Distinct. International Conference

on Migration and Integration Challenges. Israel, Ruppin Academic Center, May 2017.

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The Response of the Russian-Jewish Community in Germany to the Mass Migration of

Muslim Refugees and Its Political Aftermath. The Board of Directors of the Jewish

Agency Meeting, Jerusalem, October 2016.

Russian Jews in Israel and in the US: Comparative Reflections 25 Years after the

Exodus from the USSR/FSU. International Conference "Contemporary Jewish Life in

a Global Modernity. Contemporary European Perspectives on a Changing Diaspora."

Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany, 11-12 December 2014.

Cultural and Linguistic Patterns among the 1.5 Generation Russian-Jewish

Immigrants to Israel and Germany. Seminar “Russian Language in Germany” at the

University of Munich, Germany, 4-6 June 2014.

The Tale of the Two Waves: Juxtaposing Russian Jewish Emigration Waves of the

1970s and 1990s. International conference “Russian-Jewish Migrations Across

History”, Harriman Institute for Eurasian Studies at Columbia University, New York,

October 2012. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International

Colloquium "Diasporas and Political Generations in Migration Research" at the

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University (November 2011).

Israel and Diaspora: Between Enthusiasm and Apathy. The First International

Conference on the Interim Results of the Taglit/Birthright Project.

Brandeis University, May 2012.

Immigration and Israel’s Ethno-Cultural Mosaic. Invited Lecture at the University of

North Texas. Dallas, February 2012.

"G-d Lives in Jerusalem:" Religiosity among Russian Jews after 20+ Years of Life in

Israel. International conference "Global Russian-Jewish Diaspora", Davis Center for

Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, November 2011.

IVF, Surrogacy, Egg Donation, and More: Dilemmas of Assisted Reproduction in the

Jewish State. Colloquium of the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health,

University of California, San Francisco. August 2011.

From State Socialism to State Zionism: Attitudes towards State-Religion Relations

among former-Soviet Israelis. Colloquium of the Max Planck Institute for the Study

of Religious and Cultural Diversity, Gottingen, Germany. May 2011.

The Place of Russian Jews in Israeli Society: Sociological Reflections.

Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 2010.

Academic Sabbaticals

University of Potsdam, Germany (History and Jewish Studies) 2013-14

Visiting professor of Israel Studies, course “Immigration to Israel: Historic and

Sociological Perspectives.” Research project “Israeli Diaspora in Berlin”

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Hebrew Union College and Jewish Theological Seminary, New York (2009-10) – Schustermann Visiting Professor of Israeli Studies (AICE fellow)

Courses: Family, Gender Relations, and Women in Israel

Ethnic Relations and Immigration in Israel

University of California, Davis (2005) Visiting Professor,

Department of Sociology

Graduate Seminar Sociology of Women's Health and Reproduction

Brandeis University (2004/5) Scholar in Residence

The Hadassah International Institute for Research on Jewish Women

Research project:

Acculturation of Soviet Jewish Immigrant Women to American

Femininity and Feminism

University of Toronto (1997) Visiting Professor

Graduate Courses:

Population and Health Crisis in the Former Soviet Union (Center for

Russian and East European Studies)

Critical Social Issues in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Department of

Behavioral Sciences at the Medical School.)

Updated December 2018