Rivka A Eisikovits
Biographic Data
| ID | 126911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rivka A Eisikovits |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rivka A |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisikovits |
| SIGNATURE | EISIKOVITS R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Transnational Lives of American-Israeli Mothers
Second generation identities: The case of transnational young females of Russian descent in Israel
The present paper explores the transnational orientation of second-generation female immigrant teenagers of Russian descent in Israel and their position regarding these two cultures and the respective part they play in the participants’ identity negotiations. Comparisons are made with findings of two previous studies on gender-based adaptation styles of youth of similar origin, who arrived during mid-to-late adolescence. This is in order to inves…
Grandparenting across borders: American grandparents and their Israeli grandchildren in a transnational reality
School as a place: A phenomenological method for contemplating school environments
The study presents a phenomenologically based research procedure, whose intent is to examine people’s school experience and the meaning they ascribe to ‘school.’ Participants in this investigative endeavor are instructed to sketch an ‘ideal school,’ present their plan in a visual‐schematic manner, and provide an oral and written description of their design. Proposals are presented through a Location Task – a tool originally intended for use by ar…
You Can't Exactly Act American Here In Israel: Identity Negotiations of Transnational North American-Israeli Children and Youth
An increasing number of migrant families around the world maintain strong, simultaneous connections in their country of residence and their country of origin. North Americans in Israel are one migrant group representing this worldwide phenomenon. This study employs child- and youth-oriented ethnographic research methods with children of North American–Israeli transnational families. We present a phenomenological look at their identity negotiation…
Migration, Motherhood, Marriage: Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of North American Immigrant Mothers in Israel
This study probes the cross‐cultural adaptation patterns of North American women who immigrated to Israel with their Israeli‐born husbands (or married there) and are mothers in their new country. In order to undertake a cultural analysis of the interplay between immigration, motherhood and bicultural marriage, we examine: the effects of motherhood and North American culture of origin on cross‐cultural adaptation; the effects of immigration to Isr…
Coping with high-achieving transnationalist immigrant students: The experience of Israeli teachers
Social and Academic Adaptation Styles of Female Students who Immigrated Alone from the Former Soviet Union to Israel
Migration from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) included a unique group of young women who immigrated alone to Israel in search of opportunities for higher education. Individual migration is a rare phenomenon in the Jewish‐Russian family context, which is characterized by close family ties among members. The content analysis of in‐depth interviews with a group of female immigrant undergraduates revealed two profiles based on their mode of migration:…
Intergenerational Transmission of Motherhood Patterns: Three Generations of Immigrant Mothers of Moroccan Descent in Israel
Patterns of gender role division and child rearing are determined by the belief system, values and conditions that characterize a given culture (Harkness, Super & van Tijen, 2000). In traditional societies it is one of the main intergenerationally transmitted patterns of culture (Harkness & Super, 2000). As parenting is one of the major sources of personal identity, there is greater opposition to changes in it (Harris, 1968; Pitman, Eisikovits & …
Intercultural Learning among Russian Immigrant Recruits in the Israeli Army
In Israel, where over one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) arrived during the past decade, compulsory military service provides young immigrants with an opportunity for acculturation. These youth are regarded as a population at risk, as they both face the trials of adjustment to a newsociety and are in the midst of their identity formation, at decision-making crossroads regarding future life goals. The purpose of this phenome…
Perspectives of Young Immigrants from the Former USSR on Voting and Politics in Israel
This paper explores the position of a group of immigrant youths from the European republics of the former USSR on participation in public life in Israel, as expressed in their attitudes toward voting in the 1996 national elections, the first in which the youths were eligible to take part. The study group consisted of 30 18–year–old high school seniors, 14 males and 16 females, from the northern part of the state, who were interviewed during the m…
Traditional Beliefs Concerning Health and Illness Among Members of the Circassian Community in Israel
Coronary Heart Disease among Circassians in Israel Is Not Associated with Mutations in Thrombophilia Genes
The Muslim Circassian community in Israel represents a unique ethnic community that has never been genetically and medically studied. One hundred and fifty-three randomly selected individuals (91 men and 62 women, ages 35 and older), both healthy or with a history of cardiovascular disease (14 men and 7 women), were studied in a cross-sectional descriptive study for mutations in three genes known to be associated with hypercoagulation. Their medi…
Gender Differences in Cross-Cultural Adaptation Styles of Immigrant Youths from the Former U.S.S.R. in Israel
Examining the issue of social adjustment among high school seniors who had immigrated from the former Soviet Union as early adolescents, this study probes the long-term effects of these youths' cross-cultural migration. It considers gender-based differences in their styles of adaptation, focusing on the following four topics: (a) their perceptions of the social role of the school in bringing new immigrants and veteran or native Israelis closer to…
The Educational Experience and Performance of Immigrant and Minority Students in Israel
The educational needs of Jewish and Arab primary and secondary school-age student populations are provided by two separate and parallel educational systems. The immigrant context is discussed first, then educational issues pertaining to the Arab minority are examined. Emphasis is placed on emerging trends in the educational treatment of immigrant children as well as on shifts in educational policy and practice in the Arab sector. The educational …
Educational success and long‐term adaptation of immigrant students in Israel
The paper examines patterns of longitudinal cultural adaptation demonstrated by a group of professionally successful immigrants who moved from Transylvania, Romania, to Israel. On a continuum of attitudes towards immigrants ranging from resistance to active solicitation as a function of underlying ideologies, Israel's emphasis on nation‐building represents the positive pole. Its educational expression is a professed interest in immigrant children…
I'll Tell You What School should Do for Us: How Immigrant Youths from the Former U.S.S.R. View their High School Experience in Israel
This article examines the perspectives of a group of 16- to 18-year-old immigrants from the former U.S.S.R. on their educational experience in an Israeli high school. Its findings can contribute to the provision of better quality education to these youths, who are undergoing cross-cultural transition at a critical stage in their lives. Although this study is based on fieldwork conducted in an Israeli context, it is hoped that the insights gained …
Models Governing the Education of New Immigrant Children in Israel
Political participation: A comparative view of Israeli and American youth
Authors' Response to Commentaries
Cultural Transmission in Three Societies: Testing a Systems-Based Field Guide
The issues involved in creating and testing an anthropologically adequate theory of cultural transmission are addressed in this article. The authors introduce a field guide based on a general systems approach and a body of data gathered with it from Israel, the midwestern United States, and Zinacantan. An analytic method is described and used to compare cultural transmission processes as they affect sixto twelveyear-olds. The analysis, which incl…
Grandparenting across borders: American grandparents and their Israeli grandchildren in a transnational reality
Migration, Motherhood, Marriage: Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of North American Immigrant Mothers in Israel
This study probes the cross‐cultural adaptation patterns of North American women who immigrated to Israel with their Israeli‐born husbands (or married there) and are mothers in their new country. In order to undertake a cultural analysis of the interplay between immigration, motherhood and bicultural marriage, we examine: the effects of motherhood and North American culture of origin on cross‐cultural adaptation; the effects of immigration to Isr…
I'll Tell You What School should Do for Us: How Immigrant Youths from the Former U.S.S.R. View their High School Experience in Israel
This article examines the perspectives of a group of 16- to 18-year-old immigrants from the former U.S.S.R. on their educational experience in an Israeli high school. Its findings can contribute to the provision of better quality education to these youths, who are undergoing cross-cultural transition at a critical stage in their lives. Although this study is based on fieldwork conducted in an Israeli context, it is hoped that the insights gained …
Coping with high-achieving transnationalist immigrant students: The experience of Israeli teachers
Second generation identities: The case of transnational young females of Russian descent in Israel
The present paper explores the transnational orientation of second-generation female immigrant teenagers of Russian descent in Israel and their position regarding these two cultures and the respective part they play in the participants’ identity negotiations. Comparisons are made with findings of two previous studies on gender-based adaptation styles of youth of similar origin, who arrived during mid-to-late adolescence. This is in order to inves…
You Can't Exactly Act American Here In Israel: Identity Negotiations of Transnational North American-Israeli Children and Youth
An increasing number of migrant families around the world maintain strong, simultaneous connections in their country of residence and their country of origin. North Americans in Israel are one migrant group representing this worldwide phenomenon. This study employs child- and youth-oriented ethnographic research methods with children of North American–Israeli transnational families. We present a phenomenological look at their identity negotiation…
Educational success and long‐term adaptation of immigrant students in Israel
The paper examines patterns of longitudinal cultural adaptation demonstrated by a group of professionally successful immigrants who moved from Transylvania, Romania, to Israel. On a continuum of attitudes towards immigrants ranging from resistance to active solicitation as a function of underlying ideologies, Israel's emphasis on nation‐building represents the positive pole. Its educational expression is a professed interest in immigrant children…
Intergenerational Transmission of Motherhood Patterns: Three Generations of Immigrant Mothers of Moroccan Descent in Israel
Patterns of gender role division and child rearing are determined by the belief system, values and conditions that characterize a given culture (Harkness, Super & van Tijen, 2000). In traditional societies it is one of the main intergenerationally transmitted patterns of culture (Harkness & Super, 2000). As parenting is one of the major sources of personal identity, there is greater opposition to changes in it (Harris, 1968; Pitman, Eisikovits & …
Intercultural Learning among Russian Immigrant Recruits in the Israeli Army
In Israel, where over one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) arrived during the past decade, compulsory military service provides young immigrants with an opportunity for acculturation. These youth are regarded as a population at risk, as they both face the trials of adjustment to a newsociety and are in the midst of their identity formation, at decision-making crossroads regarding future life goals. The purpose of this phenome…
School as a place: A phenomenological method for contemplating school environments
The study presents a phenomenologically based research procedure, whose intent is to examine people’s school experience and the meaning they ascribe to ‘school.’ Participants in this investigative endeavor are instructed to sketch an ‘ideal school,’ present their plan in a visual‐schematic manner, and provide an oral and written description of their design. Proposals are presented through a Location Task – a tool originally intended for use by ar…
Social and Academic Adaptation Styles of Female Students who Immigrated Alone from the Former Soviet Union to Israel
Migration from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) included a unique group of young women who immigrated alone to Israel in search of opportunities for higher education. Individual migration is a rare phenomenon in the Jewish‐Russian family context, which is characterized by close family ties among members. The content analysis of in‐depth interviews with a group of female immigrant undergraduates revealed two profiles based on their mode of migration:…
The Educational Experience and Performance of Immigrant and Minority Students in Israel
The educational needs of Jewish and Arab primary and secondary school-age student populations are provided by two separate and parallel educational systems. The immigrant context is discussed first, then educational issues pertaining to the Arab minority are examined. Emphasis is placed on emerging trends in the educational treatment of immigrant children as well as on shifts in educational policy and practice in the Arab sector. The educational …
Political participation: A comparative view of Israeli and American youth
Cultural Transmission in Three Societies: Testing a Systems-Based Field Guide
The issues involved in creating and testing an anthropologically adequate theory of cultural transmission are addressed in this article. The authors introduce a field guide based on a general systems approach and a body of data gathered with it from Israel, the midwestern United States, and Zinacantan. An analytic method is described and used to compare cultural transmission processes as they affect sixto twelveyear-olds. The analysis, which incl…
Political participation: A comparative view of Israeli and American youth
Authors' Response to Commentaries
Cultural Transmission in Three Societies: Testing a Systems-Based Field Guide
The issues involved in creating and testing an anthropologically adequate theory of cultural transmission are addressed in this article. The authors introduce a field guide based on a general systems approach and a body of data gathered with it from Israel, the midwestern United States, and Zinacantan. An analytic method is described and used to compare cultural transmission processes as they affect sixto twelveyear-olds. The analysis, which incl…
Models Governing the Education of New Immigrant Children in Israel
Educational success and long‐term adaptation of immigrant students in Israel
The paper examines patterns of longitudinal cultural adaptation demonstrated by a group of professionally successful immigrants who moved from Transylvania, Romania, to Israel. On a continuum of attitudes towards immigrants ranging from resistance to active solicitation as a function of underlying ideologies, Israel's emphasis on nation‐building represents the positive pole. Its educational expression is a professed interest in immigrant children…
I'll Tell You What School should Do for Us: How Immigrant Youths from the Former U.S.S.R. View their High School Experience in Israel
This article examines the perspectives of a group of 16- to 18-year-old immigrants from the former U.S.S.R. on their educational experience in an Israeli high school. Its findings can contribute to the provision of better quality education to these youths, who are undergoing cross-cultural transition at a critical stage in their lives. Although this study is based on fieldwork conducted in an Israeli context, it is hoped that the insights gained …
The Educational Experience and Performance of Immigrant and Minority Students in Israel
The educational needs of Jewish and Arab primary and secondary school-age student populations are provided by two separate and parallel educational systems. The immigrant context is discussed first, then educational issues pertaining to the Arab minority are examined. Emphasis is placed on emerging trends in the educational treatment of immigrant children as well as on shifts in educational policy and practice in the Arab sector. The educational …
Gender Differences in Cross-Cultural Adaptation Styles of Immigrant Youths from the Former U.S.S.R. in Israel
Examining the issue of social adjustment among high school seniors who had immigrated from the former Soviet Union as early adolescents, this study probes the long-term effects of these youths' cross-cultural migration. It considers gender-based differences in their styles of adaptation, focusing on the following four topics: (a) their perceptions of the social role of the school in bringing new immigrants and veteran or native Israelis closer to…
Coronary Heart Disease among Circassians in Israel Is Not Associated with Mutations in Thrombophilia Genes
The Muslim Circassian community in Israel represents a unique ethnic community that has never been genetically and medically studied. One hundred and fifty-three randomly selected individuals (91 men and 62 women, ages 35 and older), both healthy or with a history of cardiovascular disease (14 men and 7 women), were studied in a cross-sectional descriptive study for mutations in three genes known to be associated with hypercoagulation. Their medi…
Traditional Beliefs Concerning Health and Illness Among Members of the Circassian Community in Israel
Perspectives of Young Immigrants from the Former USSR on Voting and Politics in Israel
This paper explores the position of a group of immigrant youths from the European republics of the former USSR on participation in public life in Israel, as expressed in their attitudes toward voting in the 1996 national elections, the first in which the youths were eligible to take part. The study group consisted of 30 18–year–old high school seniors, 14 males and 16 females, from the northern part of the state, who were interviewed during the m…
Intergenerational Transmission of Motherhood Patterns: Three Generations of Immigrant Mothers of Moroccan Descent in Israel
Patterns of gender role division and child rearing are determined by the belief system, values and conditions that characterize a given culture (Harkness, Super & van Tijen, 2000). In traditional societies it is one of the main intergenerationally transmitted patterns of culture (Harkness & Super, 2000). As parenting is one of the major sources of personal identity, there is greater opposition to changes in it (Harris, 1968; Pitman, Eisikovits & …
Intercultural Learning among Russian Immigrant Recruits in the Israeli Army
In Israel, where over one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) arrived during the past decade, compulsory military service provides young immigrants with an opportunity for acculturation. These youth are regarded as a population at risk, as they both face the trials of adjustment to a newsociety and are in the midst of their identity formation, at decision-making crossroads regarding future life goals. The purpose of this phenome…
Coping with high-achieving transnationalist immigrant students: The experience of Israeli teachers
Social and Academic Adaptation Styles of Female Students who Immigrated Alone from the Former Soviet Union to Israel
Migration from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) included a unique group of young women who immigrated alone to Israel in search of opportunities for higher education. Individual migration is a rare phenomenon in the Jewish‐Russian family context, which is characterized by close family ties among members. The content analysis of in‐depth interviews with a group of female immigrant undergraduates revealed two profiles based on their mode of migration:…
Migration, Motherhood, Marriage: Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of North American Immigrant Mothers in Israel
This study probes the cross‐cultural adaptation patterns of North American women who immigrated to Israel with their Israeli‐born husbands (or married there) and are mothers in their new country. In order to undertake a cultural analysis of the interplay between immigration, motherhood and bicultural marriage, we examine: the effects of motherhood and North American culture of origin on cross‐cultural adaptation; the effects of immigration to Isr…
School as a place: A phenomenological method for contemplating school environments
The study presents a phenomenologically based research procedure, whose intent is to examine people’s school experience and the meaning they ascribe to ‘school.’ Participants in this investigative endeavor are instructed to sketch an ‘ideal school,’ present their plan in a visual‐schematic manner, and provide an oral and written description of their design. Proposals are presented through a Location Task – a tool originally intended for use by ar…
You Can't Exactly Act American Here In Israel: Identity Negotiations of Transnational North American-Israeli Children and Youth
An increasing number of migrant families around the world maintain strong, simultaneous connections in their country of residence and their country of origin. North Americans in Israel are one migrant group representing this worldwide phenomenon. This study employs child- and youth-oriented ethnographic research methods with children of North American–Israeli transnational families. We present a phenomenological look at their identity negotiation…
Grandparenting across borders: American grandparents and their Israeli grandchildren in a transnational reality
Second generation identities: The case of transnational young females of Russian descent in Israel
The present paper explores the transnational orientation of second-generation female immigrant teenagers of Russian descent in Israel and their position regarding these two cultures and the respective part they play in the participants’ identity negotiations. Comparisons are made with findings of two previous studies on gender-based adaptation styles of youth of similar origin, who arrived during mid-to-late adolescence. This is in order to inves…
The Transnational Lives of American-Israeli Mothers
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (7 works) · Geography (7 works)