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Patterns of Adaptation Among Contemporary Jewish Immigrants to the US

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The current era of international migration is marked by unprecedented numbers as well an especially wide range of origins and characteristics. Jews, a group noted for their high levels of education, geographic dispersion, and multiple engagements in social, political, cultural, economic, and religious life, reflect many of these trends as they continue to enter the US.

This chapter reviews sources of data for studying recent Jewish migration as well as migrants’ motives for migration, social and demographic characteristics, patterns of economic adaptation, community formation, religious practice, and patterns of conflict and collaboration with established American Jews and American society in general. The article concentrates on the three largest and most well-studied populations of recent Jewish immigrants—Russian-speakers, Israelis and Latin Americans—while also summarizing the experience of smaller migrant nationalities.

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Notes

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    Immigration restrictions from the 1920s through 1940s did exclude thousands of European Jews seeking refuge from the Nazis (Breitman and Kraut 1987, p. 9; Goldscheider and Zuckerman 1984, p. 174).

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    Both Haaretz and the Narrative.ly website have published profiles of Avishai Mekonen, an Ethiopian-Israeli Jewish filmmaker living in New York (Mozgovaya 2009; Spiegel 2012).

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