Udi Sommer

Sommer has provided one of the most comprehensive portraits of Israelis living in America (Nathan Burstein, New York Post / Jerusalem Post NY Edition, February 21, 2010) 

Home but Away: The Experience of Immigrant Parents (Krovim Rechokim in Hebrew) is a popular nonfiction based on a series of interviews with Israelis who raise(d) their children in America.
This book is the first to deal exclusively with the experience of parents who are immigrants. While living with an identity crisis may characterize immigrants, when they become parents, many of them feel the need to pass on to their children a more coherent sense of who they are. Yet, with its set of challenges, parenting also offers immigrants otherwise unavailable opportunities to solve their identity crisis. Based on in- depth interviews with Israelis who raise(d) their children in America, it is shown how parenting is a unique setting. As parents, immigrants not only feel the need to shape a coherent identity for themselves and consequently for their children, but are also offered an opportunity to do so.