Nosenko-Shtein E. E. "Pass on this to your children, and their children to the next generation": Cultural memory of Russian Jews in our days, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2013, 576 p. The book by E. E. Nosenko-Stein is a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of cultural memory. A recognized expert in the ethnography and social anthropology of Russian Jews and the author of numerous studies, the author summarizes the results of his many years of work and finds out how factors such as religion, traditions, family, education, community organizations, the State of Israel, and anti-Semitism affect the transmission of Jewish cultural experience and cultural information from generation to generation among people different ages in modern Russia. The author seeks to answer the question: what connects different groups within the framework of non-governmental organizations?- page 403what is the general concept of a "Jewish community" in Russia? And is it possible, even with reservations, to call this connecting factor cultural memory? If so, what are the characteristics of this cultural memory across generations? This is also interesting for understanding a more general problem - the peculiarities of the religious component of Jewish identity in post-Soviet countries. The work has a clear structure that allows the reader to navigate the variety of topics covered. The book is disciplinarily located at the intersection of anthropology and sociology. It is provided with a large appendix consisting of full texts of interviews, tables with statistics, as well as articles on similar topics that are not included in the main text of the book. The work is based on the author's own field materials collected from 1999 to 2010 in various Russian cities (227 in-depth interviews), while quantitative methods (questionnaire survey) were used in combination with qualitative ones for verification purposes. For comparative analysis, data from other st ... Read more