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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

Birenbaum, Menucha; Kraemer, Roberta – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1995
Examines gender and ethnic differences among Jewish and Arab high school students in Israel with respect to their causal attributions for success and failure in mathematics and language examinations. Results from 333 ninth graders show larger effects of ethnicity than of gender, with effects more pronounced in success than in failure attributions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Arabs, Comparative Analysis