The article explores investment decisions made by Israelis who purchased or intended to purchase a residential property in Poland. Specifically, it focuses on their set of motivations to invest there and the extent to which their ethno-national or other types of affinity with the country played a role in their decision. Drawing on interviews with (Jewish) Israeli citizens, we argue that their Choice to invest in Poland was not only financial but influenced also by strong emotional connections to the country, a combination we term ‘sentrumental’ (instrumental and sentimental). We contend that the decision of Israeli Jews to buy property in Poland, against the historical backdrop of the traumatic experience of Jews there, is highly contentious. Analyzing the discursive strategies they use to explain, indeed justify, their unorthodox decision, we show how their emotional ties to Poland often conflict with its controversial history and their own personal identities. It is this conflict, we conclude, that makes Israeli Jews with various biographical ties to Poland an inherently ambivalent elective diaspora.

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房地产投资和矛盾的选举波兰侨民在以色列的形成

本文探讨了在波兰购买或打算购买住宅房产的以色列人做出的投资决策。具体来说，它重点关注他们在那里投资的一系列动机，以及他们的民族或其他类型的与国家的亲和力在他们的决定中发挥作用的程度。根据对（犹太）以色列公民的采访，我们认为他们在波兰投资的选择不仅是财务方面的，而且还受到与该国强烈的情感联系的影响，我们将这种结合称为“工具性”（工具性和情感性）。我们认为，在犹太人遭受创伤经历的历史背景下，以色列犹太人在波兰购买房产的决定极具争议。通过分析他们用来解释甚至证明其非正统决定的话语策略，我们展示了他们与波兰的情感联系如何经常与波兰有争议的历史和他们自己的个人身份发生冲突。我们得出的结论是，正是这种冲突使得与波兰有着各种传记联系的以色列犹太人成为一个本质上矛盾的选择性侨民。