This book is a follow-up to our project devoted to personal narratives of ex-Soviets in Israel. Our original plan was to collect previously published articles dealing with immigration issues but differing from the main themes of our book Ex-Soviets in Israel: From Personal Narratives to a Group Portrait (Fialkova & Yelenevskaya 2007).

The themes of immigrants in the city, attitude to law, immigrants' literature and humor were touched upon but not developed in depth in that volume. They were researched in a number of papers written later (Fialkova & Yelenevskaya 2006, 2006a, 2011, 2012, Yelenevskaya & Fialkova 2006, 2008) and discussed in our presentations at 11 scholarly conferences.