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.
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