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Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651383
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Jewish Americans written by Annelise Orleck and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable introduction to an an important new American population.
Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313371016
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Jewish Americans written by Annelise Orleck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 States, the communities they created there, and the cultural problems they encountered. The author, an expert on this group, dispels stereotypical notions about Soviet Jewish immigrants by exploring the tremendous social, political, and cultural diversity of the nearly half million Soviet Jews now living in the United States. Making abundant use of interviews and photographs, this book is as accessible as it is informative. It opens with a history of Jewish life in the Soviet Union as remembered by elderly immigrants. Theirs are gripping memoirs of the turbulence of revolutionary Russia, the horror of Nazi occupation, Josef Stalin's post-war assault on surviving Jewish leaders, and the emergence from the ashes of a flourishing Jewish counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. Immigrant voices narrate the history of this Jewish exodus, which began as a protest movement by a handful of courageous activists and developed into a mass migration. The second half of the book vividly evokes life in Soviet Jewish communities across the United States, from the crowded urban landscape of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, to the palmy, smoggy enclave of West Hollywood, California. Class, gender, and cultural and political divisions are all addressed in this fascinating portrait of a complex and diverse community.
Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Jewish Americans written by Annelise Orleck and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, an expert on this group, dispels stereotypical notions about Soviet Jewish immigrants by exploring the tremendous social, political, and cultural diversity of the nearly half million Soviet Jews now living in the United States.
Author : Murray Friedman
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874519136
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (191 download)
Download or read book A Second Exodus written by Murray Friedman and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-time chronicle of the US Soviet Jewry Movement.
Author : Fred A. Lazin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739161415
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics written by Fred A. Lazin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Rita J. Simon
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780275957315
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (573 download)
Download or read book In the Golden Land written by Rita J. Simon and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William W. Orbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Movement to Aid Soviet Jews written by William W. Orbach and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pauline Peretz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412856418
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Let My People Go written by Pauline Peretz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Jews’ mobilization on behalf of Soviet Jews is typically portrayed as compensation for the community’s inability to assist European Jews during World War II. Yet, as Pauline Peretz shows, the role Israel played in setting the agenda for a segment of the American Jewish community was central. Her careful examination of relations between the Jewish state and the Jewish diaspora offers insight into Israel’s influence over the American Jewish community and how this influence can be conceptualized. To explain how Jewish emigration moved from a solely Jewish issue to a humanitarian question that required the intervention of the US government during the Cold War, Peretz traces the activities of Israel in securing the immigration of Soviet Jews and promoting awareness in Western countries. Peretz uses mobilization studies to explain a succession of objectives on the part of Israel and the stages in which it mobilized American Jews. Peretz attempts to reintroduce Israel as the missing, yet absolutely decisive actor in the history of the American movement to help Soviet Jews emigrate in difficult circumstances.
Author : Gal Beckerman
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547504438
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone written by Gal Beckerman and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “remarkable” story of the grass-roots movement that freed millions of Jews from the Soviet Union (The Plain Dealer). At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the USSR. They lived a paradox—unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue. Journalist Gal Beckerman draws on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews with refuseniks, activists, Zionist “hooligans,” and Congressional staffers. He shows not only how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989, but also how it shaped the American Jewish community, giving it a renewed sense of spiritual purpose and teaching it to flex its political muscle. Beckerman also makes a convincing case that the effort put human rights at the center of American foreign policy for the very first time, helping to end the Cold War. This “wide-ranging and often moving” book introduces us to all the major players, from the flamboyant Meir Kahane, head of the paramilitary Jewish Defense League, to Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky, who labored in a Siberian prison camp for over a decade, to Lynn Singer, the small, fiery Long Island housewife who went from organizing local rallies to strong-arming Soviet diplomats (The New Yorker). This “excellent” multigenerational saga, filled with suspense and packed with revelations, provides an essential missing piece of Cold War and Jewish history (The Washington Post).
Author : Henry Felix Srebrnik
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936235117
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Dreams of Nationhood written by Henry Felix Srebrnik and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Srebrnik began his research of the place of Birobidzhan in the ideological space of American Jews over a decade ago. I believe I have read the majority of his publications on this fascinating and little-known topic, and this new book, Dreams of Nationhood, is the best among them.-Gennady Estraikh, New York University Author of In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism.
Author : Stuart Altshuler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742549364
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (493 download)
Download or read book From Exodus to Freedom written by Stuart Altshuler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sheila M. Puffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1107190851
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Hammer and Silicon written by Sheila M. Puffer and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story, in their own words, of the contributions of Soviet and post-Soviet immigrants to the US innovation economy, revealed through in-depth interviews and analysis. It will appeal to academics, business practitioners, and policymakers interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, the tech industry, immigration, and cultural adaptation.
Author : Betty N. Hoffman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490785
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Jewish Hearts written by Betty N. Hoffman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dan A Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000313476
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Studies Of The Third Wave written by Dan A Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Deck Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Golden
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9652295434
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (522 download)
Download or read book O Powerful Western Star! written by Peter Golden and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Jews, Russian Jews, and the Final Battle of the Cold War.
Author : Robert Owen Freedman
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971-80 written by Robert Owen Freedman and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The exodus of more than 250,000 Soviet Jews during the 1970s has opened a window for the authors of this volume to gain significant new insights into the essentially closed society and political decision-making process of the Soviet Union. Divided into two parts, the book first analyzes the nature and development of Soviet anti-Semitism as well as examining the effects of world pressure from 1971 to 1980 on the Soviet government's decision to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate. It then offers useful cross-cultural comparisons of the emigration experience, with a specific focus on Soviet-Jewish resettlement in Israel and the United States"--Page preceding title page.
