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The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies estimates that Immigrants were a key part of the growth in the country's most populous metropolitan area, New York, whose population surged to more than eight million people in the s. Many immigrants from the former Soviet Union took advantage of U.
Stavitsky now teaches English at a local college and in business schools. She says her family's decision to come to the United States was prompted by the increasingly uncomfortable conditions for Jews in St.
She said anti-Semitism by the end of the s had changed from an official Soviet policy to what she called "street anti-Semitism. So I was trying to find a place where I would be first considered a person and then a Jew and that's when we thought of America. New York also has well-established agencies to assist relocating Jews. Organizations like the New York Association for New Americans typically have staffers meet arriving Jewish refugees at the airport, providing them with a small amount of U.
The sheer numbers of former Soviets forced many to settle beyond the comforts of Brighton Beach. The new arrivals have created pockets of Russian speakers throughout the borough of Brooklyn, in Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, and Kensington. She is a Holocaust survivor raised as an orphan in the western Ukrainian town of Chernovits Chernivtsi. Unable to practice her Jewish faith and facing discrimination, she was granted refugee status in the United States with her husband and two children, arriving in Brooklyn in Now a grandmother, Stukelman works as vice president of the Association of Holocaust Survivors.
They have opportunity to speak Russian. Working mainly on family reunification, the aid agency Catholic Charities helped relocate about Kosovo Albanians to New York after an ethnic-cleansing campaign by Serb forces in Now a student at St. The Dream of Israel Realized. Toward a Different Promised Land Behind Closed Doors Once Again The Fourth Wave Begins Why They Continue to Leave to the Present.
The Soviet Jewish Americans (The New Americans) [Annelise Orleck] on bahana-line.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This lively, moving narrative . Product Description. This lively, moving narrative provides the first comprehensive account of the emigration of nearly , Soviet Jews to the United States.
The Fallout from Chernobyl. Settling an Exodus in the s. New Immigrants Meet the Old. The Elderly A Traumatized Population. Adults from 25 to Gender as a Factor in Adult Adjustment. Making Friends and Rebuilding Identities. Parents Grandparents and Teenage Rebellion.
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