ABSTRACT
From 1989 onwards the great exodus became decisive in the fate of Russian Jewry. * Previously, the socio-demographic profile of this population had been moulded by various factors: low fertility, intermarriage and the large-scale emigration of the 1970s, on the one hand; and educational achievements realized within a unique socio-economic structure, governmental anti-Semitic pressures notwithstanding, on the other.
