The New Immigrant: A Study of Vocational Adjustment of Soviet Jews


 

Publication Date: December 1977

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Irene K. Hawks

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Immigration; Employment; Acculturation

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Successful adjustment of the Soviet Jew to our culture is often predicated upon vocational adjustment during the initial resettlement period. Understanding the role of occupational identity in the culture from which they come facilitates our efforts on behalf of the new Jewish immigrants.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.54 no.2, Winter 1977.