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Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict.

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Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict. By Larissa Remennick. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007. ix + 408 pp.

In three major aspects Larissa Remennick's book successfully fills a gap in the study of the historically under-documented and sociologically under-examined global phenomenon of the Soviet Jews. The book appears just as the community of" "Russian Jews" dispersed around the globe commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the beginning of the Soviet Jewry movement. Many observers symbolically chart the beginning of this movement to the aftermath of the Six Day War in 1967, when Israel miraculously won the war against its hostile Arab neighbors. From then on, Soviet Jews, in gradually growing numbers, "quietly considered the subversive option of emigration" (3). Though seeking emigration from the U.S.S.R. in the 1970s and the 1980s often amounted to an act of individual heroism, by the time the Soviet Union collapsed...

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