The article focuses on the media practices of the Russian-speaking Orthodox Jews seeking patterns of observance relevant to secular modernity. The author applied the conceptual framework of “communicative figurations" for describing the process of everyday Torah observances in post-Soviet countries, Israel, the USA, and Western Europe. The empirical research of media repertoires revealed that the members in the post-Soviet Orthodox communities use Facebook and Instagram platforms to maintain closed women groups and rabbis’ blogs focused on observance. Women’s groups are framing everyday observance in terms of modesty, family purity, kosher home, etc. Personal rabbis’ blogs introduce the practices of “digital Judaism" that include Torah lessons, the daily page of the Talmud, questions and answers exchange, etc. The content-based textual analyses uncovers thematic intersections, circulation of stories, and reciprocal hyperlinks between both types of groups. Media practices of women’s groups and rabbis’ blogs pr
Translated title of the contributionMedia practices of russian speaking orthodox jews : Women's groups and rabbis' blogs on facebook and instagram
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)263-292
Number of pages30
JournalGosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide
Volume38
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

    Scopus subject areas

  • Religious studies
  • Sociology and Political Science

    Research areas

  • closed Facebook groups for Orthodox Jewish women, communicative figuration, digital Judaism, facebook, instagram, Orthodox Jews, rabbis' blogs, Russian-speaking Jews, закрытые женские группы ортодоксальных евреек, коммуникативная фигурация, медиапрактики, ортодоксальное русскоязычное еврейство, раввинские блоги

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