Old Lives and New
Soviet Immigrants in Israel and America- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2012
Summary
This is the moving story of a number of individuals who made the difficult and sometimes hazardous decision to leave their home, family, and friends and start new lives in Israel and the United States. Edith Rogovin Frankel interviews them twice: shortly after they leave the Soviet Union in the late 1970s and again, twenty-five years later, when they have long been settled in their new lives. Their experiences—from their formative years in the Soviet Union, to their decisions to leave, to their struggles to receive permission to emigrate—illuminate the complex history of Soviet Jews. The story of their emigration represents the universal tale of anyone who has ever migrated, hoping to find a new and better life elsewhere. Above all, this is the personal story of these men and women, of the desires that inspired them and of the dogged faith that kept them going.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2012
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7618-5784-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7618-5785-3
- Publisher
- Hamilton Books, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 208
- Product type
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Some Words of Thanks No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
- Chapter One. The War No access
- Chapter Two. Post War and Post Stalin No access
- Chapter Three. The Formation of Hopes and Plans No access
- Chapter Four. The Decision to Leave—and Where No access
- Chapter Five. Departures and Arrivals No access
- Chapter Six. Israel No access
- Chapter Seven. America No access
- Chapter Eight. In America, Twenty-Five Years Later No access
- Chapter Nine. In Israel, Twenty-Five Years Later No access
- Afterword No access Pages 205 - 206
- List of Immigrants and Where They Appear No access Pages 207 - 208





