The Soviet Jewish Americans / Annelise Orleck ; photographs by Elizabeth Cooke.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Orleck, Annelise
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series:New Americans (Westport, Conn.)
Subjects:
Jews, Soviet > United States > Social conditions.
Jews > Soviet Union > History.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.