The purpose of this research was to measure the social and linguistic integration of Russian speaking Jews in the United States, Israel, and Germany and to investigate which factors were most associated with immigrant engagement in the host country's Jewish community.

The first phase of the project consisted of gathering survey data on preferences (e.g., food, music) attitudes (e.g., child rearing), language usage, and demographics from approximately 300-500 Russian-Jewish immigrants in each country. These data were collected using a revised version of the Soviet-Jewish Acculturation Measure (SAM), which we developed for this study. The second phase consisted of qualitative interviews with Russian-Jewish leaders focusing on community life, cultural institutions, political structures, and spiritual involvement. The third and last phase consisted of content analysis of Russian-language and mainstream Jewish media's coverage pertaining to Russian-speaking immigrants in each of the three countries. All of these data, along with a historical and political analyses of the immigration group's experience in each of the three countries can be found in our 2006 book published by Brill Academic Publishers.