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Article: Soviet Jewish emigrants find selves in Italian limbo
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 30, 1989
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This is the second in a series on emigration from the Soviet
Union and Eastern Europe.
LADISPOLI, Italy The thousands of Soviet Jews who have converged
on this once-popular resort 25 miles south of Rome are in a kind of
suspended animation - halfway between the communist East they left
behind and the United States, where they are determined to go.
Their exact number varies from day to day.
Some are officially redesignated "refugees," eligible for
admission to the United States, and therefore they leave. Newcomers
arrive after having "dropped out" in Vienna, Austria, the main way
station for Soviet-Jewish emigres with visas for Israel.
Representatives of the American Joint ...