In the Golden Land A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America

Subjects:

• Sociology » Demography
• Sociology » Urban Studies
• Multicultural Studies » Jewish Studies
• Multicultural Studies » Multicultural Studies (General)

Reviews:

• A major conceptual strength of In The Golden Land is that it is one of the only studies to consciously understand the nearly 400,000 Jews who have entered the United States from the former Soviet Union since 1970 as the latest cohort in a century-long flow of Eastern European Jews to the United States....A second dimension of this book's value lies in its comprehensive treatment of the experience of Russian/Soviet Jewish immigrants.
  —Contemporary Sociology

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Russian Jewish Immigration
• Public Opinion About the New Immigrants
• Russian Jews in the United States
• Jews in the Soviet Union
• Soviet Jewish Immigrants
• Reactions of the American Jewish Community to Soviet Jews
• Literary, Educational, and Recreational Institutions
• The Zionist Movement in America
• The Russian Jews and the Left
• Jews in Professional Sports
• Jews in the Entertainment Field
• Russian Jews and Crime
• Soviet Jews as Small Business Owners
• Closing Comments