Old Lives and New

Edith Rogovin Frankel is a political scientist who has published widely on the Soviet Union and Soviet Jews. She is the author of Novy Mir: A Case Study in the Politics of Literature 1952–1958 as well as studies on the ethnic Germans of the Soviet Union, the Soviet treatment of Jews, and Soviet Jewish voting patterns in Israel. Frankel has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and University College London, among others. She has developed a website, www.oldlives.com, about this book.

• Some Words of ThanksIntroductionPart One: OriginsChapter 1: The WarChapter 2: Post War and Post StalinChapter 3: The Formation of Hopes and PlansPart Two: Awakenings and DecisionsChapter 4: The Decision to Leave—and WhereChapter 5: Departures and ArrivalsPart Three: Settling DownChapter 6: IsraelChapter 7: AmericaPart Four: Twenty-Five Years LaterChapter 8: In America, Twenty-Five Years LaterChapter 9: In Israel, Twenty-Five Years LaterAfterwordList of Immigrants and Where They Appear

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