ABSTRACT
The West has had ample opportunity since the mid-1960s to witness the anguished protests of such dissident Soviet intellectuals as Sinyavsky, Daniel Norman, Sakharov, and Solzhenitsyn. Soviet citizens arriving the United States are met by a Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society representative and are lodged overnight in a New York City hotel. The Soviet emigres in Cincinnati are essentially people from large cities with the Ukrainian cities dominating. Foreign broadcasts played a dramatic role in providing the Soviet Jews with information about the United States, with approximately 75 percent of the respondents citing the BBC, Radio Liberty, or Radio Israel as sources of information. A sense of alienation from Soviet society because of Jewishness appears to be a prevalent reaction. For the Jewish community of Cincinnati, the support for the Russians remains fairly strong, with freedom of choice with respect to settlement in the United States rather than Israel endorsed by resounding majorities.
