The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe: A Zomian Jewish Community in Israel.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among a community of immigrants from the Eastern Indian states of Manipur and Mizoram, Bene Menashe, this article deals with how these immigrants have used ethnic identity to further integrate into mainstream Jewish and Israeli society. Originally known as t...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 424 - 443 |
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