Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia

Yulia Oreshina

Central Asian Survey, 2025, vol. 44, issue 2, 281-293

Abstract: This paper critically addresses Soviet-era narratives about Georgian Jews through oral history interviews collected by the author in Israel and Georgia from Georgian Jews and non-Jews. These include topics, such as mutual aid in the shadow economy and in religious traditions, the fight for the right to leave the USSR, as well as contacts between Jewish and non-Jewish families after the aliyah. The author relies on Svetlana Boym’s theoretical work on the notion of nostalgia and on Aleida Assmann’s developments on the mediality of memory to identify the selectivity of memory related to the interethnic relations in Soviet Georgia.

Date: 2025
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