‘I Want Them to Learn about Israel and the Holidays’: Jewish Israeli Mothers in Early-Twenty- First-Century Britain
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Research has shown that the presence of children in the Jewish Israeli emigrant family intensifies their ambivalence about living abroad, but encourages greater involvement with fellow Israelis as they seek to transmit a Jewish Israeli identity and maintain their children’s attachment to the Jewish state. This article explores this assumption by focusing on the experiences of mothering of a group of Israeli emigrants in Britain. Based on twelve oral history interviews, it considers the issues of child socialisation and the mothers’ own social life. It traces how the women created a social network within which to mother and how they tried to ensure their children preserved a Jewish Israeli identity. The article also seeks to question how parenting abroad led the interviewees to embrace cultural and religious traditions in new ways.
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6(1)
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80-94
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אני רוצה שהם ילמדו על ישראל והחגים" - אימהות יהודיות־ישראליות בבריטניה של תחילת המאה העשרים ואחת" (Other language version)
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‘I Want Them to Learn about Israel and the Holidays’: Jewish Israeli Mothers in Early-Twenty- First-Century Britain. 2016: 80-94. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.18352/rg.10132
