In the Golden Land - A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America

List of contents

Introduction
Russian Jewish Immigration
Public Opinion About the New Immigrants
Russian Jews in the United States
Jews in the Soviet Union
Soviet Jewish Immigrants
Reactions of the American Jewish Community to Soviet Jews
Literary, Educational, and Recreational Institutions
The Zionist Movement in America
The Russian Jews and the Left
Jews in Professional Sports
Jews in the Entertainment Field
Russian Jews and Crime
Soviet Jews as Small Business Owners
Closing Comments

About the author

RITA J. SIMON is Professor of Justice at American University. She has written extensively on law, justice, and societal issues. Among her earlier publications are In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration (Praeger, 1997) and Rabbis, Lawyers, Immigrants, Thieves: Women's Roles in America (Praeger, 1993).

Product details

• Authors: Rita J. Simon, Rita James Simon, Unknown
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.1997
• EAN: 9780275957315
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95731-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Civics and citizenship, Social groups: religious groups and communities, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Current Events and Issues: Gender