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Kheimets, Nina G.; Epstein, Alek D. – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2001
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 maintenance after their immigration to Israel. Argues that although the immigrants acquire fast, the former Jewish intelligensia's perception of the dominant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hebrew, Immigrants, Jews