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, tothe 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.
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