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LEAD There are Soviet Jews in America. How did they get here? Why did they come? Where are they now, and what legacy have they brought along with them? These questions, and more, will be answered.

Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe from 1880-1924 greatly diversified American Jewry which had previously hailed from western and central europe ([2] p. 17)

The very secularized jews of "little Odessa" (Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) did/ do not value as much the practice of their faith as much as the chance for descendants to have unfettered access to instruments of social mobility. ([2] p. 318)

The soviet jews that fled the USSR to either Israel of the States were of those who did not drop their "jewish" identity via their internal passport and therefore represent jews who more strongly identify as such. ([2] p. 319)

Soviet jews as having lesser moral values than their american counterparts as a result of the USSR being effective in instilling pessimism in them . ([2] p. 319)

The efforts of American Jews to "save" their Soviet counterparts is partly a response to the failures of their parents to save millions of jews from the Holocaust. ([2] p. 322) "Never Again" slogan , promoted by the JDL, established a connection between the Holocaust and Soviet Jews.

"This most recent wave started as a trickle in the 1970s and grew into a flood after the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Abandoning regions as disparate as Central Asia, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Ukraine, Jews and their non-Jewish family members settled primarily in the United States, Israel, and Germany. In the United States, Russian-speaking Jewish migrants represent the largest Jewish immigration wave to the United States since the enactment of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. Russian-speaking Jews comprise close to 20% of the Jewish community in greater metropolitan areas such as New York City". ([7] abstract)