Homecoming, immigration, and the national ethos: Russian-Jewish homecomers reading Zionism

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-14

  Lomsky Feder, Edna ^a   Rapoport, Tamar ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Homecoming; Immigration; Israeli society; National ethos; Personal narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529423     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2001.0007     Document Type: Article

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