Abstract

In 1974 the unanticipated appearance in West Berlin of more than five hundred Soviet Jews created local, national, and international repercussions. These migrants, having obtained permission to leave the USSR and arriving either from Israel or directly from the refugee facilities in Vienna and Rome, had not only asserted their freedom to choose their destination but had also selected a somewhat startling new homeland where they intended to apply for immediate citizenship. Because of recent German history the governments of West Berlin and West Germany, although unprepared either to welcome or expel them, devised stopgap measures that encouraged further Soviet Jewish arrivals and compounded the difficulties of their reception.

摘要

1974年，超过500名苏维埃犹太人在西柏林出人意料地出现，在当地，国家和国际上都产生了影响。这些移民获得离开苏联的许可，并从以色列或直接从维也纳和罗马的难民设施返回，不仅维护了选择目的地的自由，而且还选择了一些令人震惊的新家园来申请。立即获得公民身份。由于德国最近的历史，西柏林和西德政府虽然不准备欢迎或驱逐它们，但制定了权宜之计以鼓励苏联犹太人的进一步到来，并加深了其接收的困难。