The Soviet Jewish Americans

by Annelise Orleck

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313300747
• ISBN13: 9780313300745
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"