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About
the Study Initiative
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What
portends for 2nd-generation Israeli Americans?
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The Israeli-American
Study Initiative (IASI),
a start-up project based at the UCLA
International Institute, is setting out to
document the lives and times of Israeli Americans––
initially focusing on those in Los Angeles and in due
time throughout the United States.
At
the outset the project aims to construct an historical
account and narrative of the community by collecting textual
and visual documents past and present, and conducting
interviews with key individuals involved in the educational,
cultural, social and organizational life of the community.
Concurrently,
the project will continue assembling an annotated bibliography
of academic and literary works dealing with Israeli Americans
and the Israeli Diaspora at large, a list of local institutions
and organizations, and interpretative demographic data extracted
from the 2000 U.S. Census and INS.
Beyond the documentation phase, the project,
in collaboration with the community and with extramural funding,
will seek to ascertain via field study what portends for second-generation
Israeli Americans, and what course of action and policies
are required to preserve their ethnic identity.
We invite you to explore the site, and we welcome your comments
and contributions.
IsraelisInAmerica.Org
Jonathan
Friedlander
Amnon Peery
R. Jean Roth
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