The Soviet Jewish Americans
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Author | : Annelise Orleck |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Immigrants |
ISBN | : 9781584651383 |
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A highly readable introduction to an an important new American population.
Author | : Rita J. Simon |
Publisher | : VNR AG |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1997-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780275957315 |
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From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States. Russian Jewish emigration had ceased by the 1920s due to the effects of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Quota Acts, but a century later, Jews from the former Soviet Union began to emigrate in large numbers. This detailed account describes the motivations of Russian and Soviet Jews for leaving their homeland and their subsequent adjustments to life in the United States. Simon, a sociologist, provides insight into who these Jewish immigrants were and are, what they accomplished, and how they have been viewed.
Author | : Fred A. Lazin |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739161415 |
Download The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. In Vienna, with the assistance of American aid organizations, thousands of Soviet Jews transferred to Rome and applied for refugee entry into the United States. The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics examines the conflict between the Israeli government and the organized American Jewish community over the final destination of Soviet Jewish ZmigrZs between 1967 and 1989. A generation after the Holocaust, a battle surrounded the thousands of Soviet Jewish ZmigrZs fleeing persecution by choosing to resettle in the United States instead of Israel. Exploring the changing ethnic identity and politics of the United States, Fred A. Lazin engages history, ethical dilemma, and diplomacy to uncover the events surrounding this conflict. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of public policy, immigration studies, and Jewish history.
Author | : Dan A Jacobs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2019-07-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000313476 |
Download Studies Of The Third Wave Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
During the 1970s the Soviet Union allowed large numbers of its citizens to emigrate, the first major group allowed to leave in five decades. The number of emigres peaked in 1979, with 50,000 persons leaving the USSR—most of them Soviet Jews, most of them bound for the United States. This book studies this most recent of three major influxes of Soviet Jews into the United States. Using case studies based on six major cities, it considers where the immigrants came from, why they came, how they feel about the Soviet regime and people, what their occupations were in the USSR, and how they are adjusting to social and professional life in the United States. Their responses are compared with those of earlier immigrants to draw conclusions about the role the "third wave" may play in U.S. life. The interviews also shed light on current political, social, and economic conditions in the Soviet Union.
Author | : Murray Friedman |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874519136 |
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A first-time chronicle of the US Soviet Jewry Movement.
Author | : Peter Golden |
Publisher | : Gefen Publishing House Ltd |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9652295434 |
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American Jews, Russian Jews, and the Final Battle of the Cold War.
Author | : Betty N. Hoffman |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0791490785 |
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This ethnographic study compares and contrasts the changing ethnic identity of those Russian Jews who settled in Hartford, Connecticut between 1881 and 1930 with that of the Soviet Jews who remained in Russia after the Revolution, became Soviet citizens, and emigrated after 1975. Although both groups were labeled "Jews," their internal definitions of what constituted being Jewish and their personal experiences were radically different. Using both archival and contemporary oral histories, Betty N. Hoffman traces the stories of real people whose lives and choices were affected by both their ethnic identity and the larger movements around them as they made new homes in the United States.
Author | : Stuart Altshuler |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742549364 |
Download From Exodus to Freedom Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Between 1967 and 1991, almost half of the entire Jewish population of the Soviet Union left for freedom to Israel, America, and other western countries. This book tells the story of the American Jewish community's involvement in this exodus, and is the first of its kind to explore how such a massive emigration occurred for a population virtually written-off by world Jewry as doomed just two decades before.
Author | : William W. Orbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Shaul Kelner |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479879398 |
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Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan–Bush years What do these things have in common? Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic®, the fitness craze, the Philadelphia Flyers, B-grade spy movies, and ten thousand Bar and Bat Mitzvah sermons? Nothing, except that social movement activists enlisted them all into the most effective human rights campaign of the Cold War. The plight of Jews in the USSR was marked by systemic antisemitism, a problem largely ignored by Western policymakers trying to improve relations with the Soviets. In the face of governmental apathy, activists in the United States hatched a bold plan: unite Jewish Americans to demand that Washington exert pressure on Moscow for change. A Cold War Exodus delves into the gripping narrative of how these men and women, through ingenuity and determination, devised mass mobilization tactics during a three-decade-long campaign to liberate Soviet Jews—an endeavor that would ultimately lead to one of the most significant mass emigrations in Jewish history. Drawing from a wealth of archival sources including the travelogues of thousands of American tourists who smuggled aid to Russian Jews, Shaul Kelner offers a compelling tale of activism and its profound impact, revealing how a seemingly disparate array of elements could be woven together to forge a movement and achieve the seemingly impossible. It is a testament to the power of unity, creativity, and the unwavering dedication of those who believe in the cause of human rights.