The Soviet Refugee: Challenge to the American Jewish Community Resettlement System


 

Publication Date: December 1975

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Burton S. Rubin

Research Area: Population and demographics

Keywords: Acculturation; Immigration; Cultural Sensitivity

Type: Report

Coverage: United States Soviet Union

Abstract:

This article describes issues with the American Jewish resettlement system and how it is less accommodating to Eastern European Jews than those from Western Europe. The author describes the difficulty that many Soviet Jews have acculturating into American life.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 52:2