Identité juive et immigration en Israël : Une enquête en cours sur l'actuelle vague d'immigrants russes

摘要

Jewish identity and immigration to Israel : An on-going Survey among the current wave of Russian Immigrants Natalia DAMIAN et Yehudit ROSENBAUM-TAMARI This paper aims to supply information on the factors that motivated large masses of Jews to leave the former Soviet Union and settle in Israel during the last few years. Also investigated is the relationship between Jewish identity and the decision to immigrate to Israel. Finally, the study examines the connection between immigrants' Jewish and Israeli identity and their predisposition to stay in Israel or to re-emigrate elsewhere. The findings indicate that the current Jewish emigration from the former USSR has, to a significant extent, the character of free choice, and that the decision to corne to Israel is highly correlated with the respondents' commitment to their Jewishness and to the Jewish people. The data also show that most of the immigrants decided to remain in Israel, their decision being decisively contingent upon the respondents' "subjective" evaluation of their personal situation in the new society, and the degree of their attachment to Jewish values and to the State of Israel.