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THE LIMITS OF RACIAL DOMINATION - PLEBEIAN SOCIETY IN COLONIAL MEXICO-CITY, 1660-1720 - COPE,RD

Authors JI ISRAEL
Year 1995
Journal Name Journal of Latin American Studies
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1 Journal Article

FELIPE CALDERON'S DRAMA IN THE WAR AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING

Authors Israel Cervantes Porra
Year 2017
Journal Name Andamios, Revista de Investigación Social
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2 Journal Article

Birds as lines: The production of alternative regimes of environmental management in the aftermath of a toxic disaster

Authors Israel Rodríguez-Giralt
Year 2015
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 7
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3 Journal Article

Between Racism and Universalism

Authors Israel Koren
Year 2024
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4 Journal Article

The ‘strangest of minorities’: The shifting visibility of South African post‐war migration to Britain

Authors Mark Israel
Year 1996
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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5 Journal Article

Transformations of the Sikh Diaspora

Authors Milton Israel
Year 1991
Journal Name Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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6 Journal Article

Transformations of the Sikh Diaspora

Authors Milton Israel
Year 1991
Journal Name Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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7 Journal Article

SEPHARDIC IMMIGRATION INTO THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, 1595-1672

Authors J ISRAEL
Year 1989
Journal Name STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA
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8 Journal Article

Reconstructing the Timing and Dispersion Routes of HIV-1 Subtype B Epidemics in The Caribbean and Central America: A Phylogenetic Story

Authors Israel Pagan, Africa Holguin
Year 2013
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 11
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9 Journal Article

The pursuit of excellence, or how solicitors maintain racial inequality∗

Authors Michael King, Mark Israel
Year 1989
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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10 Journal Article

Ethical implications of digital infrastructures for pluralistic perspectives

Authors Maria Joseph Israel, Ahmed Amer
Year 2021
Journal Name ETHICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Citations (WoS) 1
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12 Journal Article

Transnational policy migration, interdisciplinary policy transfer and decolonization: Tracing the patterns of research ethics regulation in Taiwan

Authors Zhen-Rong Gan, Mark Israel
Year 2020
Journal Name DEVELOPING WORLD BIOETHICS
Citations (WoS) 2
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13 Journal Article

Police Abuse or Just Deserts? Deservingness Perceptions and State Violence

Authors Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Shea Streeter
Year 2022
Journal Name PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY
Citations (WoS) 7
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14 Journal Article

Revisión Sistemática sobre Educación para una Ciudadanía Global Transformadora

Authors Israel Garcia Bayon, Rosa M. Rodríguez-Izquierdo
Year 2024
Journal Name Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social
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15 Journal Article

Janus-faced mobility, sense of road-as-place and Indigenous Bedouin-Jewish settlers relationships

Authors Avinoam Meir, Batya Roded, Arnon Ben-Israel
Year 2020
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16 Journal Article

The Subjective Well-Being of Immigrants: Pre- and Post-migration

Authors Karin Amit, Ilan Riss
Year 2014
Journal Name Social Indicators Research
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17 Journal Article

Playing with the Boycott: Israel-South Africa Sports Ties in the Apartheid Era

Authors Itamar Dubinsky
Year 2022
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT
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18 Journal Article

INTERNAL MIGRATION IN MEXICO. A REGIONAL STUDY ANALYSIS IN LOS CABOS, B.C.S. (2021)

Authors Renato Pintor-Sandoval, Manuel de Jesus Israel-Cazares
Year 2023
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19 Journal Article

"My Heart is in the Maghrib": Aspects of Cultural Revival of the Moroccan Diaspora in Israel

Authors Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli, Yigal Shalom Nizri
Year 2016
Journal Name HESPERIS-TAMUDA
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20 Journal Article

THE RUSSIAN PROSE IN THE CONTEXTS OF ISRAELILE IDENTITY: CULTURAL FRONTIER OR THE CASE OF MARGINAL NATION-BUILDING

Authors M. W. Kyrchanoff
Year 2019
Journal Name ZHURNAL FRONTIRNYKH ISSLEDOVANII-JOURNAL OF FRONTIER STUDIES
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21 Journal Article

Black, Poor and Jewish: The Ostracism of Ethiopian Jews in Modern Israel

Authors Holly A. Jordan
Book Title Migration Policy and Practice
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22 Book Chapter

South African speech-language therapists’ and audiologists’ professional quality of life

Authors Victor M. De Andrade, Cherilyn Da Silva, Nickey Israel
Year 2024
Journal Name South African Journal of Communication Disorders
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23 Journal Article

Integration and assimilation of Moroccan immigrants in Israel and the Netherlands

Authors JP Van Oudenhoven, AM Eisses
Year 1998
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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24 Journal Article

ISRAEL STUDENTS ATTITUDES TOWARD EMIGRATION

Authors H HARRIET, M HARTMAN
Year 1995
Journal Name Youth & Society
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26 Journal Article

Israel, apartheid, and a South African Jewish dilemma

Authors Shirli Gilbert, Deborah Posel
Year 2021
Citations (WoS) 4
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27 Journal Article

Institutional structure and immigrant integration: A comparative study of immigrants' labor market attainment in Canada and Israel

Authors Noah Lewin-Epstein, Irena Kogan, Moshe Semyonov, ...
Year 2003
Journal Name International Migration Review
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29 Journal Article

The Israel Factor in Growing Indo-US Strategic Ties

Authors Sadia KHANUM, Muhammad MOİZ
Year 2020
Journal Name Ortadoğu Etütleri
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31 Journal Article

Too good to be true? The Creation of the People of Israel

Authors Niels Peter Lemche
Year 2020
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32 Journal Article

The Two Waves of Russian-Jewish Migration from the USSR/FSU to Israel: Dissidents of the 1970s and Pragmatics of the 1990s

Authors Larissa Remennick
Year 2015
Journal Name Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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34 Journal Article

African Refugees' Influx in Israel from a Socio-Political Perspective

Authors Haim YACOBI
Description
This paper focuses on socio-political dynamics in Israel in relation to the increased flow of African refugees and asylum seekers. The main argument presented here is that there is an inherent tension between the ethnocentric ideologies and the questions of territorial control that define Israel, and the pressure exerted by NGOs and civil society in relation to the ongoing influx of African asylum seekers and refugees. The theoretical insight that emerges is that the arrival of "foreigners" in Israel challenges Israeli identity politics and attitudes towards the "Other", whilst simultaneously revealing complexity in Israel's ethno-national identity and collective history.
Year 2009
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Irregular Migration to Israel: The Sociopolitical Perspective

Authors Haim YACOBI
Description
This paper focuses on socio-political dynamics in Israel in relation to increases in the irregular migration of non-Jewish workers, as well as refugees and asylum seekers from Africa. The main argument outlined here is that despite the significant ethnocentric ideologies and territorial controls that characterise Israel, the country is witnessing a significant influx of non-Jewish migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. The theoretical insight that stems from this paper is that the irregular migration of “foreigners” to Israel challenges Israeli politics of identity and attitudes towards the “Other”, whilst simultaneously unveiling complexity in Israel's ethno-national identity and collective history.
Year 2008
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The Psycho-Social Conditions of Asylum-Seekers from Darfur in Israel

Authors V. Slonim-Nevo, Shirley Regev, Yiftach Millo
Year 2015
Journal Name Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
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37 Journal Article

Psychological Well-Being during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Labour Market and Gender Implications

Authors Israel Escudero-Castillo, Fco Javier Mato-Diaz, Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez
Year 2022
Journal Name APPLIED RESEARCH IN QUALITY OF LIFE
Citations (WoS) 3
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38 Journal Article

Uncertain Comparisons: Zionist and Israeli Links to India and Pakistan in the Age of Partition and Decolonization

Authors Rephael G. Stern
Year 2021
Journal Name LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW
Citations (WoS) 2
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39 Journal Article

Identity, Belonging and Intentions to Leave of First and 1.5 Generation FSU Immigrants in Israel

Authors Karin Amit
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Indicators Research
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40 Journal Article

Underlying Sentiments in 1867: A Study of News Flows on the Execution of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico in Digitized Newspaper Corpora

Authors Adan Israel Lerma Mayer, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Ernesto Priani Saiso, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name DIGITAL HUMANITIES QUARTERLY
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41 Journal Article

Tama Galut Etiopiya: The Ethiopian Exile Is Over

Authors Steven Kaplan
Year 2005
Journal Name Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
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42 Journal Article

Integration and assimilation of Moroccan immigrants in Israel and the Netherlands

Authors Jan Pieter Van Oudenhoven, Anne-Marie Eisses
Year 1998
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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43 Journal Article

A new exodus? Explaining Jewish migration from Europe after the Cold War

Authors Scott N. Siegel
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
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44 Journal Article

Zionism, Aliyah, and the Jews of Glasgow: Belonging and Believing in Postwar Britain

Authors Gavin Schaffer
Year 2019
Journal Name SHOFAR-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF JEWISH STUDIES
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45 Journal Article

Israel in the Italian Media Before 7 October

Authors Giacomo Buoncompagni
Year 2024
Journal Name Social Sciences
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47 Journal Article

Self-selection and earnings assimilation: Immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel and the United States

Authors Yinon Cohen, Yitchak Haberfeld
Year 2007
Journal Name Demography
Citations (WoS) 33
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48 Journal Article

Technology, trade, and adjustment to immigration in Israel

Authors Neil Gandal, Gordon H Hanson, Matthew J Slaughter
Year 2004
Journal Name European Economic Review
Citations (WoS) 37
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49 Journal Article

Social Values and Health Policy: Immigrant Physicians in the Israeli Health-Care System

Authors Judith Bernstein, Judith T. Shuval
Book Title Immigration and Integration in Post-Industrial Societies
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50 Book Chapter

The International Politics of Law-enforcement Cooperation

Description
The proposal includes three studies in the field of international relations. These studies examine the political dimensions of international cooperation in law enforcement. Study 1 explores why states succeed or fail to cooperate against smuggling along a shared border. The goal is to explain why Jordan has cooperated with Israel in combating smugglers of goods and persons, whereas Egypt has been less cooperative. Based on fieldwork in the Israel-Egypt and Israel-Jordan border areas, the study links governments' domestic political concerns to their efforts against smuggling. Study 2 examines the Israeli efforts against intellectual property piracy of American and European goods. Based on fieldwork in Israel, this study explains why Israel's enforcement of intellectual property rights is ineffective. Study 3 examines international cooperation among courts in combating parental child-abduction. This study explains the origin and evolution of the unique international regime that tackles child abduction. The study also explains why many countries have been reluctant to join this regime. The study involves fieldwork in Europe and the United States as well as interviews with judges at international judicial conferences. The three studies advance the analysis of the politics of law enforcement within the field of international relations. These studies also offer important insights for policy.
Year 2011
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Characteristics associated with downward residential mobility among birthing persons in California

Authors Samantha Gailey, Rebekah Israel Cross, Lynne C. Messer, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Citations (WoS) 4
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52 Journal Article

Forget Israel-The Future is in Berlin! Local Jews, Russian Immigrants, and Israeli Jews in Berlin and across Germany

Authors Dani Kranz
Year 2016
Journal Name SHOFAR-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF JEWISH STUDIES
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53 Journal Article

The Shaping of Military Nursing in Israel: 1947-1958

Authors Ronen Segev
Year 2023
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54 Journal Article

Wartime, Flight, and Resettlement Realities of Unaccompanied Eritrean Girls in Israel

Authors Maya Fennig, Myriam Denov
Year 2024
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55 Journal Article

Ritual female genital surgery among Ethiopian Jews

Authors N Grisaru, S Lezer, RH Belmaker
Year 1997
Journal Name Archives of Sexual Behavior
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57 Journal Article

Immigrants in Israel

Year 2015
Book Title Handbook of the Economics of International Migration
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58 Book Chapter

Palestinian widows in Israel: Between the Hammer and the Anvil

Authors Tal Meler
Year 2019
Journal Name Advances in Life Course Research
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59 Journal Article

The ethnic democracy debate: how unique is Israel?

Authors Moshe Berent
Year 2010
Journal Name Nations and Nationalism
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60 Journal Article

Spatial concentration and deconcentration of population: Israel as a case study

Authors Gabriel Lipshitz
Year 1996
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 6
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61 Journal Article

Dominant News Frames, Society's Memory, and the African Asylum Seekers' Protest in Israel

Authors Noam Tirosh
Year 2018
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist
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62 Journal Article

Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel

Authors Amir Ben Porat
Year 2014
Journal Name International Review for the Sociology of Sport
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63 Journal Article

The Pentateuch and its Reception in the Book of Ruth: Constructing Israelite Identity

Authors Gerda de Villiers
Year 2018
Journal Name JOURNAL FOR SEMITICS
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64 Journal Article

Nativity Concentration and Internal Migration among the Foreign-Born in Israel, 1990-1995

Authors Uzi Rebhun
Year 2006
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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65 Journal Article

Sport, Politics and Exile: Protests in Israel during the World Cup (Argentina, 1978)

Authors Raanan Rein, Efraim Davidi
Year 2009
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT
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66 Journal Article

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of West Nile Virus in Horses in Israel (1997-2013) - from Endemic to Epidemics

Authors Karin Aharonson-Raz, Eyal Klement, Daniel Cohen, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 9
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67 Journal Article

The Floor Falling Away: Dislocated Space and Body in the Humour of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel

Authors Hagar Salamon
Year 2011
Journal Name FOLKLORE
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68 Journal Article

Silently Navigating Ethical Paradoxes in the Israel-Hamas Conflict: A Short Note

Authors Zvi Bekerman
Year 2024
Journal Name Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
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69 Journal Article

Social inequalities, stressors and self reported health status among African American and White women in the Detroit metropolitan area

Authors A Schulz, B Israel, D Williams, ...
Year 2000
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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70 Journal Article

Moroccan Jewish Emigration to Latin America: The State of Research and New Directions

Authors Aviad Moreno
Year 2016
Journal Name HESPERIS-TAMUDA
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71 Journal Article

The effect of a planned intercultural experience on the attitudes and behavior of the participants

Authors Elka Steinkalk, Ronald Taft
Year 1979
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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72 Journal Article

Female geronticide: the case of Israel

Authors Shalva Weil, Noam S. Keshet
Year 2020
Citations (WoS) 3
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73 Journal Article

Absorbing Coaches and Athletes from the Former Soviet Union in Israel

Authors Udi Carmi
Year 2017
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORT
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74 Journal Article

Housing Adjustment Among Immigrants in Israel: Application of Complementary Non-Metric and Metric Techniques

Authors Uzi Rebhun
Year 2009
Journal Name Social Indicators Research
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75 Journal Article

The number of Israeli immigrants in the United States in 1990

Authors Yinon Cohen, Yitchak Haberfeld
Year 1997
Journal Name Demography
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76 Journal Article

Neozionism: portrait of a contemporary hegemony

Authors Hilla Dayan
Year 2019
Journal Name Settler Colonial Studies
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77 Journal Article

MUSIC AND IDENTITY: VARIED ASPECTS IN THE SINGING OF AN ARAB ISRAELI SINGER

Authors Essica Marks
Year 2010
Journal Name REVISTA DE ETNOGRAFIE SI FOLCLOR-JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHY AND FOLKLORE
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78 Journal Article

My poor cousin, my feared enemy: The image of Arabs in personal narratives of former Soviets in Israel

Authors MN Yelenevskaya, L Fialkova
Year 2004
Journal Name FOLKLORE
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80 Journal Article

Race and surveillance in the settler colony: the case of Israeli rule over Palestine

Authors Ronit Lentin
Year 2017
Journal Name Palgrave Communications
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81 Journal Article

Report on citizenship law : Israel

Authors Yossi HARPAZ, Ben HERZOG
Description
This report discusses citizenship in Israel. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2018
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82 Report

Return Migration to Israel

Authors Nina Toren
Year 1978
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 5
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83 Journal Article

The stereotyped "Greek Jew" from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Israeli popular culture

Authors K. E. Fleming
Year 2007
Journal Name Journal of Modern Greek Studies
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84 Journal Article

ISRAEL AND THE DIASPORA

Authors W REICH
Year 1987
Journal Name JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES
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85 Journal Article

Multilingual Interviewing in Israel

Authors Haim Blanc
Year 1956
Journal Name American Journal of Sociology
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86 Journal Article

Mass migration and labor market incorporation: Soviet immigrants in Israel

Authors Nancy Weinberg
Year 2001
Journal Name Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
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87 Journal Article

Last resort? Lobotomy operations in Israel, 1946-60

Authors R Zalashik, N Davidovitch
Year 2006
Journal Name HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY
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88 Journal Article

PLANET OF THE JEWS: ERUVIM, GEOGRAPHY, AND JEWISH IDENTITY IN MICHAEL CHABON'S THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION

Authors Daniel Anderson
Year 2015
Journal Name SHOFAR-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF JEWISH STUDIES
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89 Journal Article

The Origins of Israeli Deaf Ethnicity

Authors Marco Di Giulio
Year 2022
Citations (WoS) 2
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90 Journal Article

CONCEPTUALISING AND THEORISING ANTISEMITISM AND RACISM: THE STRUCTURAL CONTEXT OF ISRAEL-PALESTINE

Authors Martin Shaw
Year 2015
Journal Name JOURNAL OF HOLY LAND AND PALESTINE STUDIES
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91 Journal Article

Challenges to effective and autonomous genetic testing and counseling for ethno-cultural minorities: a qualitative study

Authors Nehama Cohen-Kfir, Miriam Ethel Bentwich, Andrew Kent, ...
Year 2020
Citations (WoS) 5
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92 Journal Article

FACTS AND MYTHS ABOUT SUICIDE: A STUDY OF JEWISH AND ARAB STUDENTS IN ISRAEL

Authors Bracha Katz-Sheiban, Yovav Eshet
Year 2008
Journal Name OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
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93 Journal Article

Old Debate, New Evidence : Class Mobility Trends in Israeli Society, 1974-1991

Authors M. Yaish
Year 2000
Journal Name European Sociological Review
Citations (WoS) 8
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94 Journal Article

Changing Definitions of Germanness across Three Generations of Yekkes in Palestine/Israel

Authors Dani Kranz
Year 2016
Journal Name GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
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96 Journal Article

POLISH LITERATURE IN ISRAEL: BETWEEN THE MEMORY OF EUROPE AND A NEW LIFE

Authors Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
Year 2016
Journal Name ROCZNIKI HUMANISTYCZNE
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97 Journal Article

Immigrant Employment and Occupational Mobility in a Context of Mass Migration. Soviet Immigrants in Israel

Authors N. Weinberg
Year 2001
Journal Name European Sociological Review
Citations (WoS) 10
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98 Journal Article

Unfair treatment, neighborhood effects, and mental health in the Detroit metropolitan area

Authors A Schulz, D Williams, B Israel, ...
Year 2000
Journal Name JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
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100 Journal Article
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