English term
still return to visit
From the official srcript for a BBC documentary about the Balfour Declaration.
The Balfour Declaration’s potential to transform the future for the Jewish people soon became clear. In 1920, Britain was formally handed control of Palestine, and the doors began to open for Jews to emigrate to the country. A 100,000 arrived in the first few years alone. I’ve come to Israel to find out what effect the Balfour Declaration has had to this day. Soon after its publication regeneration began as Jewish immigrants bought land. The first farming community, established after the Declaration, was in this valley in Northern Israel. It was named ‘Balfourya’, in honour of Lord Balfour. Amongst the early settlers were Judith and Ruth Slotsky. Today they are 96 and 91. They’ve invited me to join a Friday night Shabbat or Sabbath gathering. The sisters are the only surviving members of the first generation of their family to emigrate to Palestine. Their parents came in here in 1924. They’d escaped persecution in Russia. They had nine daughters. ***Judith and Ruth still return to visit***.
There is a big pause between "They had nine daughters." and "Judith and Ruth still return to visit." And this is what immediately follows:
JANE CORBIN:
How do you feel when you come here?
JUDITH:
Like I came home. Honest. Like I came home.
My father promised my mother they will go to Israel and they brought all the family from Russia.
The sentence "Judith and Ruth still return to visit" sounds incomplete to me and I'm not sure what it means or what it refers to.
Return to visit who or what?
Thank you.
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still go back sometimes to visit their old country / friends, relations, etc.
It just means that the sisters sometimes go back from where they live now to where they used to live before — I'm not entirely clear if this means go back to Palestine, or go back to Russia, but presumably that is clear to you.
'Visit' just means in a general sense, on a temporary basis — i.e. they are not going back there to stay for good. 'Visit' in a fairly loose sense, perhaps to see places and people they used to know before, possibly visit the graves of people who have passed on.
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