Cultural citizenship and performing homecoming: Russian Jewish immigrants decipher the Zionist national ethos

Citizenship Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 321-334

  Lomsky Feder, Edna ^a   Rapoport, Tamar ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cultural citizenship; Homecoming; Immigration

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; CULTURAL IDENTITY; IMMIGRANT; NATIONALISM; STUDENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 43149124432     PISSN: 13621025     EISSN: 14693593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13621020802015479     Document Type: Article

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