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In an absorption center situated on the grounds of a youth hostel overlooking the Mediterranean, a group of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel struggle during the summer and fall of 1985 to learn to read and write in Hebrew. Along with thousands of others, they are refugees from a deadly famine in their native land. Airlifted 10 months earlier from camps in neighboring Sudan, they are removed from their Third World subsistence life styles and deposited with the speed of jet transports into a technologically advanced society.
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Allen, J., Rubin, D.L. (1993). Cross-Cultural Factors Affecting Initial Acquisition of Literacy Among Children and Adults. In: Yussen, S.R., Smith, M.C. (eds) Reading Across the Life Span. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4376-2_1
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