Patterns of Interaction and Adjustment Among Soviet Jewish Refugees: Findings from an Ethnography in the San Francisco Bay Area


 

Publication Date: January 1988

Publisher: Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry

Author(s): Steven James Gold

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: American Jews; Demography; Immigration

Type: Report

Coverage: California

Abstract:

In Contemporary Jewry 9/2, 87-105. This paper explores some emergent patterns of social interaction, ideological orientation, and adjustment among Soviet Jewish population of the San Francisco Bay Area. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and participant observation with 47 Soviet Jews and 6 resettlement staff between 1982-1984.