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The Information Analytical Edition Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

The Information And Analytical Edition
Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

2/21

January 2002
5762 Shvat

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SHALL WE
UNITE?
Information on the international conference «Jews of silence - Jews of triumph. The Soviet Jewry: yesterday, today, tomorrow» held in Moscow.

Information on the international conference «Jews of silence - Jews of triumph. The Soviet Jewry: yesterday, today, tomorrow» held in Moscow.

DOWNFALL OF
STEREOTYPES
40% of Israelis think they can learn something from «Russian» repatriates. The same number of the olim is ready to gain something from old residents.

40% of Israelis think they can learn something from «Russian» repatriates. The same number of the olim is ready to gain something from old residents.

ASSEMBLY,
DAY BY DAY
While opening the Assembly, the President of the WJC Edgar Bronfman pointed out that holding the Assembly in Jerusalem was a manifestation of solidarity of Jewish world with Israel.

While opening the Assembly, the President of the WJC Edgar Bronfman pointed out that holding the Assembly in Jerusalem was a manifestation of solidarity of Jewish world with Israel.

WHAT HAVE
WE ATTAINED?
Many repatriates discovered with horror that in Israel they meet the same anti-Semitic offences from non-Jews who had arrived from the former USSR.

Many repatriates discovered with horror that in Israel they meet the same anti-Semitic offences from non-Jews who had arrived from the former USSR.

The new immigrants

«THEY» AND «WE»: DOWNFALL OF STEREOTYPES

YAKOV ZUBARYOV

About 3 million Jews have repatriated to Israel since its foundation. Among them there are people almost from all over the world: from Russia and the USA, Poland and Morocco, Argentina and Ethiopia, Yemen and Iraq. A task to transform numerous immigrants into a united nation appeared to be unpredictably difficult for the young state. In other countries, in the USA, for example, newcomers adapt themselves to the way of life established by the majority. The thing is that in Israel that kind of majority has never existed. That's why repatriates not only adapt the set traditions but also affect them, thus changing appearance of the Israeli society. The collection of articles "Migration process and its influence on Israeli society" was published upon the results of the International scientific conference, which was held in Moscow, autumn 1999.