Cultural clash and educational diversity: Immigrant teachers' efforts to rescue the education of immigrant children in Israel
- A. Epstein, Nina G. Kheimets
- Education
- 1 July 2000
Thousands of immigrants who arrived from the former USSR during the past decade have drastically changed the Israeli educational system. However, constituting about 12% of the potential labour force…
Immigrant intelligentsia and its second generation: Cultural segregation as a road to social integration?
- A. Epstein, Nina G. Kheimets
- History
- 1 December 2000
This article deals with the recent wave of migration from the former USSR to Israel, analyses immigrant intelligentsias strategies of action in the public sphere. The authors argument is that by…
English as a central component of success in the professional and social integration of scientists from the former Soviet Union in Israel
- A. Epstein, Nina G. Kheimets
- EducationLanguage in society
- 1 April 2001
More than 13,000 scientists from the former Soviet Union have arrived in Israel since 1988. The purpose of this study is to analyze certain factors that influence immigrant scientists' integration…
Confronting the languages of statehood: Theoretical and historical frameworks for the analysis of the multilingual identity of the Russian Jewish intelligentsia in Isra
- Nina G. Kheimets, A. Epstein
- Sociology
- 2001
This paper reviews sociological analysis of the transformation of the link between language and identity among Soviet Jewish immigrants in Israel, focusing on their common desire for Russian language…
The impact of Jewish identity on the psychological adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel.
- A. Epstein, R. Levin
- PsychologyIsrael journal of psychiatry and related sciences
- 1996
Subjects with weakest levels of Jewish identity were significantly most distressed and least satisfied with Israel, confirming the importance of the role which Jewish identity plays in the adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel.
Ulrich Ammon (ed.), The dominance of English as a language of science: Effects on other languages and language communities. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xiii + 478. Hb. DM 256.00.
- Nina G. Kheimets, A. Epstein
- LinguisticsLanguage in society
- 1 October 2002
This statement is an opening point for the discussion on the effects of the dominance of English as a language of science on other languages and speech communities. The global search for a common…
The freedom of conscience and sociological perspectives on dilemmas of collective secular disobedience: The case of Israel
- A. Epstein
- Political Science
- 1 September 2002
This paper analyses the transformation of the conscientious objection patterns that occur in a large number of countries, and Israel (discussed in this paper more profoundly) is one of them.…
For the peoples of the promised land: Intellectual and social origins of Jewish pacifism in Israel∗
- A. Epstein
- Political Science
- 1 June 1998
PACIFISM AND CONSCIENTIOUS objection in Israel, especially during the period that preceded the Six-Day War (1967), has generally been ignored by Israeli scholars. Only two books touch upon the issue…
Languages of Science in the Era of Nation-state Formation: The Israeli Universities and Their (non)Participation in the Revival of Hebrew
- Nina G. Kheimets, A. Epstein
- Sociology
- 15 January 2005
This paper presents sociological analysis of the linguistic and cultural identity of two of Israel's most influential and high-ranked universities during their formative years, that were also the de…
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