The Impact of Jewish Education on Soviet Émigré Acculturation: The MetroWest Experience


 

Publication Date: June 1996

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Wallace Greene

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Youth; Immigration; Identity Formation

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Immersion of emigre children in intensive Jewish education did not succeed in involving their parents in the Jewish community or enabling their families to develop Jewishly. The current approach to resettlement, based on a one-to-one pairing of native-born with New Americans, is not religiously oriented but instead focuses on educational and cultural activities. It is proving to be more successful in integrating New Americans into American Jewish communal life.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.72 no.4, Summer 1996.