Oded Balilty’s Photos of Russian-speaking Immigrants in Israel

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Israel’s Flourishing Russian Culture

Oded Balilty thought he knew Israel, the country he grew up in, pretty well. But when he photographed Israel’s Russian-speaking immigrant community, he learned he had a lot to learn.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/israels-flourishing-russian-culture/

In a country full of Jewish immigrants, children of immigrants, and grandchildren of immigrants, Israeli Russians have retained a sense of their culture, language and identity. Yet they remain slightly apart.