In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America
By (Author) Rita J. Simon
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
25th March 1997
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Civics and citizenship
Social groups: religious groups and communities
European history
History of the Americas
304.873047
Physical Properties
Hardback
200
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
454g
Description
From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States. Russian Jewish emigration had ceased by the 1920s due to the effects of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Quota Acts, but a century later, Jews from the former Soviet Union began to emigrate in large numbers. This detailed account describes the motivations of Russian and Soviet Jews for leaving their homeland and their subsequent adjustments to life in the United States. Simon, a sociologist, provides insight into who these Jewish immigrants were and are, what they accomplished, and how they have been viewed.
Reviews
A major conceptual strength of In The Golden Land is that it is one of the only studies to consciously understand the nearly 400,000 Jews who have entered the United States from the former Soviet Union since 1970 as the latest cohort in a century-long flow of Eastern European Jews to the United States....A second dimension of this book's value lies in its comprehensive treatment of the experience of Russian/Soviet Jewish immigrants.-Contemporary Sociology
"A major conceptual strength of In The Golden Land is that it is one of the only studies to consciously understand the nearly 400,000 Jews who have entered the United States from the former Soviet Union since 1970 as the latest cohort in a century-long flow of Eastern European Jews to the United States....A second dimension of this book's value lies in its comprehensive treatment of the experience of Russian/Soviet Jewish immigrants."-Contemporary Sociology
Author Bio
RITA J. SIMON is University Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American University. A sociologist, she is editor of New Lives: The Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States and Israel and International Migration: The Female Experience, and coauthor of The Ambivalent Welcome: Media Coverage of American Immigration. She has also carried out a twenty-year study of transracial adoption. The major findings have been published in two books, Adoption, Race, and Identity and The Case for Transracial Adoption.
