Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
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What they left behind and why they left -- Remembering Soviet Jewish life -- How and why they left -- What they found and what they created in the United States -- Settling Soviet Jewish America: New York and beyond -- Gender and generation: the varied rhythms of acculturation -- Epilogue: Personal and political transformations--Soviet Jewish life in the United States after 25 years of immigration.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This lively, moving narrative provides the first comprehensive account of the emigration of nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews to the United States between 1967 and 1997. By weaving a wide variety of immigrant voices and photographs together with historical, journalistic, social service, and psychological studies of Soviet Jewish immigration, this book offers a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the history, politics, and culture of this important new American population. Topics covered include the varied reasons for their exodus from the Soviet Union, what they found in the United Stat.
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