Converting to belong

Immigration, education and nationalisation among young ‘Russian’ immigrant women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12232255
AutoresElena Neiterman, Elena Netierman (0000-0001-6767-6169, McMaster University, autor de correspondencia), Tamar Rapoport (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Año2008
Volumen21
Número2
Páginas173-189
Fecha de publicación2008-07-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGender and Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540250802213198
OpenAlexW1976056015
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas33

The paper examines religious conversion to Judaism among young ‘Russian’ immigrant girls in Israel. Looking into the process of conversion in religious boarding schools for girls only (Ulpana) and in the broader context of the Israeli nation‐state, we examine the strategies the educators contrive in inculcating religiosity among the girls, how they legitimise and facilitate their self‐transformation, and mobilise them to desire a religious subjectivity. At the same time, we study the experiences of the Russian girls in the Ulpana, and the meanings they assign to their conversion as depicted in the personal stories they narrated to us. The paper reveals how the Ulpana operates as a major nationalisation agent that cultivates a path for the girls to belong to the national religious camp, thus assuring their affiliation to Israeli‐Jewish society at large

Context (archaeology · Immigration · Judaism · Pedagogy · Political science · Religiosity · Religious education · Sociology · State (computer science · Subjectivity · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law