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Publication Date: January 1995
Publisher: Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry
Author(s): Natan Uriely
Research Area: Population and demographics
Keywords: American Jews; Immigration
Type: Report
Coverage: Illinois
Abstract:
In Contemporary Jewry 16, 27-49. This article examines the relationship of one set of newcomer immigrants to their potential "proximal host group" in the United States. Specifically, the relationship of recent higher status and lower status Israeli immigrants in Chicago and their children to Jewish Americans is examined. Field work including in-depth interviews and participant observation indicates that lower status Israeli immigrants seek to identify with Jewish Americans and to integrate into the Jewish American community. They differ from their higher status counterparts and the second generation offspring of both status groups who reject such identification and integration.