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Though a seemingly stable concept in ethnological work, "family" as a lived reality took and takes on innumerable forms shaped by economic pressures, mobility and attendant social transformations, and biotechnical interventions. The case studies in this special issue focus on the ways in which social actors seek to concretize as well as control what family could or should be. While (bio-)technological innovation proves vital to fulfill traditional imaginaries of a nuclear family, communication technology is a key to keep transnationally situated families in contact. Still, transnational work...

The book deals with Jewish history and the present in Germany since 1989. The focus is on a quantitative and qualitative study in which young Russian-speaking Jews express themselves about their relationship to Germany and Israel, as well as about familiar cultures of remembrance and theirs Experiences as "Russians" and Jews in the German immigration society speak about social advancement and discrimination. Their understanding of Judaism, of largely secular life plans, but also of religious search, as well as old and new forms of Jewish communalization, are discussed. If these descriptions...