The older immigrants from the USSR did convert identity - but rather than becoming Americans, they became Russians. The older immigrants had to find new communities where they could interact and try in some cases to retain the status they had in the old country. The majority of American Jews are descended from immigrants who arrived from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. In part because their real heritage was ignored in favor of images that fit an American perception of who immigrants are and how they should behave. Through demonstrations, letter writing campaigns, visits to dissidents in the Soviet Union, and lobbying of Congress the movement supported Jewish migration from the USSR. Jewish culture had to be reinterpreted in light of what was eventually called The Faith of America.