Figures
5.1 Jews born in the USSR/FSU, Canada, by period of immigration, 1967–2011 143
5.2 Seats won and left-right position by party in the 2015 Canadian federal election 145
5.3 Connectedness to Jewish life by desire for more connectedness, by sub-community, 2018 154
Tables
1.1 Positioning of Russian-speaking Israelis in the ideological spectrum polls agency and date 15
1.2 Dynamics of respondents’ opinions (according to surveys of different years) on the type of party that the Russian-speaking community needs 17
1.3 How would you feel if a Jew would become President of Russia? (Moscow Levada Center, Russia-wide opinion poll 2020, in % to all sample) 20
2.1 Models of party preferences of Russian-speaking Israelis in 2009–2019 elections (percentage of voters) 53
2.2 Returns of April and September 2019 elections and March 2020 elections in the Israeli “Russian Street” (accounted by this author using election returns at 187 polling stations with the dominating share of olim from the former USSR) 70
3.1 Respondents’ interest in Israeli politics 86
3.2 Party political preferences of FSU repatriates, 2024 88
3.3 Respondents’ view of a political party type that serves the new immigrants and their interests and needs in the best way 90
3.4 FSU Repatriates’ civic identification in the spectrum between Israeli and Russian/other post-Soviet nationality 93
4.1 Dynamics of New York RSJ voter registration (in % to the total sample) 112
4.2 Comparing of party-political identity of RSJ s and general American Jewry, 2012 112
4.3 Dynamics of voting pattern in presidential elections (%) 114
4.4 Russian-Jewish immigrants’ reaction on the war in Ukraine (Spring–Summer 2022) 123
4.5 Russian-Jewish vote at a special election for a seat in the ninth U.S. Congressional New York district (September 2011) 133
5.1 Party support by Jewish sub-community (in percent) 146
5.2 Do you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree, or completely disagree that the Canadian government should implement strong policies to reduce income inequality between the rich and the poor? (in percent) 147
5.3 Now thinking about the relationship between Canada and Israel, do you believe that Canada is … (in percent) 148
5.4 Determinants of FSU Jews’ political party preferences 149
5.5 In your opinion, does the continued building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank … (in percent) 149