The Role of Ethnic Politics in U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy: the Case of Soviet Jewry (Working Paper #175)
February 28, 2009
Fred A. Lazin, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Abstract:
This paper examines the exercise of power by American Jews in American
politics. It does so through an examination of the influence of the Soviet Jewry advocacy
movement on United States refugee policies during the 1970s and 1980s. The movement
consisted mostly of American Jewish organizations and individuals and operatives of an
Israeli government agency, the Liaison Bureau.
