The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980–2000

Manitoba has strategized from 2002 onwards to incorporate a free-market approach into Manitoba's Provincial Nominee Programme in order to fulfill its labour market goals. In the grand scheme of attracting new Argentinean Jewish immigrants, it was an opportunity for these people to leave their homeland that was suffering under an economic depression and a currency crisis. Both the provincial government (through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Programme) and an ethno-cultural institution (the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg) forged a partnership that matched these immigrants with jobs and also helped integrate them into the Winnipeg Jewish community. Seventeen interviews of Argentinean Jews now living in Winnipeg explained how they had a choice of emigrating to Spain, Israel or the United States but they selected Winnipeg and they give their reasons for doing so.

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Sokolow, Anna (1910–2000)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem1669-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hannah Kosstrin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Underserved Populations ◽

The United States ◽

Power Structures ◽

Martha Graham ◽

Dance Company ◽

Jewish Immigrants ◽

United States Mexico

In her seventy-year career, Anna Sokolow contributed to dance fields in the United States, Mexico, and Israel. A child of Russian Jewish immigrants, Sokolow rose to prominence in the 1930s as a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and as an independent choreographer of her own leftist dance group. She infused her formalist compositions with substantive accusations against authoritarian power structures, highlighted Jewish themes, gave voice to underserved populations and marginalized countercultures, and composed lyrical love ballads and tributes to artists and social figures she esteemed. Sokolow’s early choreography exposed societal ills and indicted fascist governments.

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Italian and Jewish Intergenerational Mobility: New York, 1910

Social Science History ◽

10.1017/s014555320001600x ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 31-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Suzanne W. Model

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

Intergenerational Mobility ◽

The United States ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

Occupational Structure ◽

Industrial Experience ◽

Entrepreneurial Skills ◽

Jewish Immigrants

Although most Italian and Jewish immigrants arrived in the United States during the same turn-of-the-century period, the occupational trajectories of their descendants have been very different. Many writers have emphasized that Jews brought with them urban-industrial experience, entrepreneurial skills, a determination to settle in America, and a reverence for education (Joseph, 1969, orig. 1914; Glazer, 1958). Italians were more often peasants or farm laborers, though their familiarity with commerce and the crafts should not be underestimated (Briggs, 1978; Gabaccia, 1984). Some have also argued that familism and disdain for education further delayed Italian participation in the upgrading of the American occupational structure (Covello, 1972; Child, 1970).

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