Photo: Chief rabbi of Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, beginning on February 24, 2022, has caused dramatic impacts on the Jewish population of both countries and post-Soviet Jewish communities in general, as well as FSU Jewish emigrant entities in dozens of countries on five continents. Although it is too early for a new appraisal, we may anticipate curtain shifts in the identity models and sociocultural framework of the global Russian-speaking Jewish subethnicity and its local components. We believe however that the Russian language has a chance to preserve its status as a lingua franca of this transnational Diaspora, at least for the time being.

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