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JEWISH EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL Shaul Kelner. 2008. Pages 423-432 in What We Now Know About Jewish Education: Perspectives on Research for Practice Edited by Roberta Louis Goodman, Paul J. Flexner and Linda Dale Bloomberg. Los Angeles: Torah Aura. Drawing on anthropological research on travel and tourism, this chapter offers a theoretical groundwork for articulating a program of research in Jewish educational travel, broadly conceived. |
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WHO IS BEING TAUGHT? Jewish Early Childhood Education’s Adult-Centered Approach Shaul Kelner. 2007. WHY JEWISH PARENTS SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO DAY SCHOOLS TOWARD THE STUDY OF COMMUNITY EFFECTS ON JEWISH ENGAGEMENT Chapters 3, 4 and 9 in Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice Edited by Jack Wertheimer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Pp. 59-79. Studies in the sociology of education: Three chapters analyzing the roles played by families, schools, communities, and advocacy groups . |
Elie Wiesel Goes to Moscow: On the (In)visibility of Systemic Antisemitism
Vanderbilt Law School, Dean’s Lecture Series on Race and Discrimination April 3, 2023 Two decades after he was liberated from Auschwitz, and two decades before he won the Nobel Peace Price, Elie Wiesel visited the USSR to report back on the plight of Soviet Jews. His 1966 travelogue, The Jews of Silence, became the galvanizing...... KEEP READING
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Special live music returns to campus with COVID protocol-compliant performance
Students and faculty from Vanderbilt Blair School of Music and a Jewish studies class hosted a COVID protocol-compliant live music performance on April 8. Full story and video here.... KEEP READING
Posted on Monday, April 12th, 2021 in In the News, Media | Tags: arts, Covid-19, pedagogy Comments Off on Special live music returns to campus with COVID protocol-compliant performance
Foreign Tourists, Domestic Encounters: Human Rights Travel to Soviet Jewish Homes
2020. In Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Christian Noack, eds. Tourism and Travel during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences across the Iron Curtain, London: Routledge. Circumventing the Soviet government’s travel bureau, Western organizations working for Soviet Jewish emigration rights collaborated with Jewish activists in the USSR to create an alternative tourist track that regularly opened...... KEEP READING
Posted on Monday, December 23rd, 2019 in Articles, Research | Tags: social movements, Soviet Jewry Movement, tourism Comments Off on Foreign Tourists, Domestic Encounters: Human Rights Travel to Soviet Jewish Homes
À la rencontre des juifs de l’autre côté du rideau de fer : récits de voyage de juifs américains et représentation du judaïsme en Union soviétique
2019. “Encountering Jews on the other Side of the Iron Curtain: American Jewish Travel Writing and the Representation of Judaism in the Soviet Union”, in Andreas Nijenhuis-Bescher, Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Gilles Bertrand and Frédéric Meyer, eds., Frontières et altérité religieuse : La religion dans le récit de voyage [Boundaries and Religious Otherness : Religion in Travel Writing]....... KEEP READING
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Where is the Next Soviet Jewry Movement? How Identity Education Forgot the Lessons that Jewish Activism Taught
2019. In Jon Levisohn and Ari Y. Kelman, eds., Beyond Jewish Identity: Rethinking Concepts and Imagining Alternatives. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press. Pp. 193-215.... KEEP READING
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The American Soviet Jewry Movement’s ‘Uneventful’ 1968: Cold War Liberalism, Human Interest and the Politics of the Long Haul
2018. In American Jewish History 102(1), 5-35. How did the American campaign for Soviet Jews, a movement born in and of the 1960s, manage to pass the tumultuous 1968 in relative quiet? And what does this reveal about the movement itself, its relationship to the politics of the New Left, and the relationship between internal...... KEEP READING
Posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2018 in Articles, Research | Tags: social movements, Soviet Jewry Movement Comments Off on The American Soviet Jewry Movement’s ‘Uneventful’ 1968: Cold War Liberalism, Human Interest and the Politics of the Long Haul
Veneration and Critique: Israel, the Sociology of American Judaism and the Problematics of Sovereignty
2016. In Jewish Studies Quarterly 23, 194–221. Both the erosion of state sovereignty and the conceptual reassessments that have emerged in response to this erosion provide the context for this consideration of American Jewish religious engagement with the State of Israel. Theorizations of sovereignty can be helpful for thinking about the relationship between American Judaism...... KEEP READING
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American Jewish Sociology
2014. In Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. David Biale. New York: Oxford University Press. This online annotated bibliography with hundreds of references surveys the broad scope of research in the sociology of American Jews. Chapter headings: Introduction General Overviews Critical Histories of the Field Readers Journals and Book Series Research Centers, Archives, and Repositories...... KEEP READING
Posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2018 in Articles, Research | Tags: articles, bibliographies Comments Off on American Jewish Sociology
Forgotten Lessons of Jewish Activism: How American Jews Mobilized to Fight for Human Rights in the USSR (and Saved American Jewry in the Process)
A lecture delivered to the Center for Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University in October 2017.... KEEP READING
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Drink Prey Lust
Wexner Foundation Blog, March 15, 2016. Purim is a festival of inversion, a time when the lowly are honored, the esteemed are mocked, the serious is parodied, and the forbidden is — for a moment — permissible. By turning things upside down for a day, Purim reaffirms what right-side-up should look like. It is only...... KEEP READING
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The Soviet Jewry Movement
A podcast produced by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan in March 2016.... KEEP READING
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Soviet Jewry Activists & Civic Engagement
Delivered March 6, 2014, for the Murray Friedman Memorial Lecture, a symposium sponsored by Temple University’s Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, and co-sponsored with the American Jewish Committee Philadelphia and the National Museum of American Jewish History.... KEEP READING
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The Timeless and the Timely: Sacralizing Political Activism in the Campaign for Soviet Jewry
A lecture delivered on February 25, 2016 at the University of Michigan, the Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies. ... KEEP READING
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Encounters and Journeys: Cultivating Jewish Peoplehood?
This December 2015 blogcast sponsored by the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education focuses on travel as a form of Jewish education, ethical engagement and community-building. Click here to view.... KEEP READING
Posted on Saturday, December 19th, 2015 in Media | Tags: Birthright Israel, diaspora, education, israel, tourism Comments Off on Encounters and Journeys: Cultivating Jewish Peoplehood?
Seeing Jewish Studies Through Christian Students’ Writing
From the Brandeis University Mandel Center’s blog, “Learning about Learning”, Jan. 6, 2015: The Zohar may seem an unlikely text to use for the first session of a 100-level Introduction to Jewish Studies class. I chose to open with it, however, for three reasons… Continue Reading »... KEEP READING
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