Surveying Community Responses to Soviet Jewish Immigration: the St. Paul Experience


 

Publication Date: June 1982

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Stephen C. Feinstein

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics

Keywords: Immigration; Social Services; Cultural Sensitivity

Type: Report

Coverage: Minnesota

Abstract:

While the community indicates awareness of the presence of newcomers in St. Paul, the general "business-as-usual"approach appears to have led many local Jews to assume that all the problems were being handled successfully by the responsible agencies and synagogues. In reality, however, this is not the case. Experience seems to indicate that the best absorption comes not via the agencies but with personal contacts and guidance.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 58:4.