Your family heritage is something that you
lack, but it is really there deep inside... - says a
14-year-old bilingual adolescent. This book gives an
insight into the controversial processes involved in
the intergenerational transmission of a heritage
language at the family and community levels. It is
based on ethnographic observations of a Russian-
speaking community in Israel and on individual tape-
recorded interviews with seven siblings and their
parents. The children report their rebellion against
the home language, periods of enthusiastic
linguistic rebirth, or detached...