Zionist escape from, 367 stranger(s): England as nation of, 65 ethnic, 4 European Jews as, 72, 73, 99–100, 104 gender roles of, 11–12 Germans of Russian Empire as, 113, 166 Gypsies as, 10 intelligentsia as, 335 Israelis as, 328 Jews as, 40, 99–100, 104, 105 language of, 16–20 marriage to, 12–13 Mercurians as, 35 and modernity, 61 moneylending to, 9–10 neutrality of, 5–6 offensiveness of, 10–11 as opposite of host, 11, 21, 22 permanent, 4–7 Soviet Jews as, 354 success at being, 9 taboos concerning, 12–16 undesirable occupations of, 9 United States as nation of, 207. See also alien/foreigner; service nomads Sudoplatov, Pavel, 305, 311 Surkov, A., 302 Svatikov, S. G., 152 Sverdlov, Ya. M., 169, 178, 179, 338 Svetlov, Mikhail (Sheinkman), 227–28, 230, 344 Sweden, 66 Switzerland, 125 Syrians, 31