The Soviet Man in an Open Society

by Tamar Horowitz

This book offers a detailed examination of the absorption of Soviet emigrants in Israel during the years 1967 to 1985. Factors that account for these immigrants' successful economic absorption are included as well as a study of their social and cultural absorption. The book proposes that the value system to which the Soviet immigrants were exposed in the Soviet Union facilitated successful economic absorption in Israel but constitute a source of difficulty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819175749
• ISBN13: 9780819175748
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 380 Pages