Category: Identity

• Aliyah and Identity: ‘The heartache of two homelands’

    Perhaps only migrating birds know– Suspended between earth and sky– The heartache of two homelands. —Leah Goldberg, 1970    Leah Goldberg’s poem ‘Pine’ poignantly captures the ambivalent position of many Olim caught between two countries and two identities. For many, negotiation of a more complex, integrated identity that sits between two cultures is realisable.…

  Dr. Lisa Law

  October 12, 2009

  Acculturation, Aliyah, Articles, Culture, Identity, Research, Stress

  Aliyah, Anglo, Culture, Dr Lisa Law, Homelands, Identity, Immigration, Israel, Leah Goldberg, olim