In the Golden Land

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.

• IntroductionRussian Jewish ImmigrationPublic Opinion About the New ImmigrantsRussian Jews in the United StatesJews in the Soviet UnionSoviet Jewish ImmigrantsReactions of the American Jewish Community to Soviet JewsLiterary, Educational, and Recreational InstitutionsThe Zionist Movement in AmericaThe Russian Jews and the LeftJews in Professional SportsJews in the Entertainment FieldRussian Jews and CrimeSoviet Jews as Small Business OwnersClosing Comments