The Jewishness of Soviet-Jewish Culture: Historical Considerations


 

Publication Date: December 1980

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Alexander Orbach

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Immigration; Jewish Identification; History

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In the final analysis, it should be much easier, and even more productive, to introduce the Soviet-Jewish emigre to the social and cultural aspects of American-Jewish life rather than to the synagogue, Jewish theology or Jewish ritual life. For many immigrants, these latter aspects of Jewish life will never have great meaning.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.57 no.2, Winter 1980.