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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 . |
Reshaping the World Through Vision, Activism, Ideas and Initiative (Not Demography)
Wexner Foundation Blog, May 22, 2014 I have now seen several rounds of brouhaha over Jewish population surveys: 1990, 2001, and now Pew 2013. One would think that the conversation would advance each decade. This is social science after all; time marches on and we build our knowledge cumulatively, on the shoulders of giants as...... KEEP READING
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Historical Perspectives on Diaspora Homeland Tourism: ‘Israel Experience’ Education in the 1950s and 1960s
2013. In Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education 7(2): 99–113. Homeland tourism is a powerful medium of diasporic education. Yet efforts to understand the enterprise are hampered by neglect of the field’s history. This article contributes to the historiography of diaspora homeland tourism by examining the emergence American Jewish educational tours of Israel in the 1950s and...... KEEP READING
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Review of Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation
Review of Roderick MacLeod and Eric John Abrahamson’s Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation. (McGill–Queens University Press, 2010.) 2013. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 12:2. Pp. 360-1 From the review: “Commissioned by the SSBFF on its fiftieth anniversary, this institutional history follows the Montreal-based foundation from its establishment in 1952 to its...... KEEP READING
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Religious Ambivalence in Jewish American Philanthropy
2013. In this chapter, I consider Jewish philanthropic federations, and their ambivalent relationship to Jewish religion from the 19th century to the present. I attempt to show that much of this ambivalence stems from the fact that these philanthropic institutions understand themselves not only to be agents of voluntary action for the public good but...... KEEP READING
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In Its Own Image: Independent Philanthropy and the Cultivation of Young Jewish Leadership
2011. This study examines Jewish American leadership development initiatives from the 1970s to the present day, focusing on the programs’ roots in the changing landscape of Jewish philanthropy and a shift in agenda-setting power from communally governed Jewish charitable federations to independent family foundations. Shaul Kelner 2011. “In Its Own Image: Independent Philanthropy and the...... KEEP READING
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The Bureaucratization of Ritual Innovation: The Festive Cycle of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
2011. Jewish Cultural Studies 3:360-391. Since the 1960s, social movements have been key forces in the development of new religious rituals that are reshaping American Judaism. This article examines how the American movement to free Soviet Jews systematized and even bureaucratized the process of ritual innovation as it developed an annual calendar of activities pegged...... KEEP READING
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Constructing Jewish Belonging through Mass Tourism: Self-Narration in Israel Experience Programs
2011. An exploration of how identity narratives are constructed on Birthright Israel. Shaul Kelner. 2011. “Constructing Jewish Belonging through Mass Tourism: Self-Narration in Israel Experience Programs.” Chapter 9 in Harvey E. Goldberg, Steven M. Cohen and Ezra Kopelowitz, eds. Dynamic Belonging: Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities. New York: Berghahn Books. Pp. 171-187.... KEEP READING
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A Lexicon in Flux
Sh’ma February 2010, Issue no. 666: Do-it Yourself Judaism This new creative enterprise that has been variously referred to as start-ups, emergents, and the innovation ecosystem is now being called DIY, Do-It-Yourself, a term with roots in the subculture of punk music. Drawing on the lexicon of punk rock offers an important counterbalance to a...... KEEP READING
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Beyond the Field Trip: Teaching Tourism through Tours
2009. Teaching Sociology 37(2):136-150. With George Sanders. A course in the sociology of tourism offers an opportunity to examine a world-transforming force that is penetrating more and more aspects of social life. It also offers an opportunity to create a learning environment that uses the object of study as the medium of study. This article...... KEEP READING
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Ritualized Protest and Redemptive Politics: Cultural Consequences of the American Mobilization to Free Soviet Jewry
2008. Jewish Social Studies 14(3): 1-37. The significance of the worldwide movement to free Soviet Jewry cannot be measured solely by its success in achieving its goals vis-à-vis Soviet Jews. It was also influential in shaping American Jewish political culture during the years it was active. During the 1960s and 1970s, and to a lesser...... KEEP READING
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From Shrine to Forum: Masada and the Politics of Jewish Extremism
2008. Israel Studies 13(2): 146-63. With Theodore Sasson. Zionist collective memory has long associated Masada with the struggle to secure Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel. This article examines the effects of the political upheavals of the Oslo and post-Oslo periods on the meanings ascribed to Masada. It documents the popularity of a critical...... KEEP READING
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Jewish Educational Travel
2008. 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. Shaul Kelner. 2008. “Jewish Educational Travel.” Pages 423-432 in What We Now Know About Jewish Education: Perspectives on Research for Practice. Edited by Roberta Louis Goodman, Paul J....... KEEP READING
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Review of Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City
Review of Jan Rath’s Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City (Routledge, 2007) Shaul Kelner. 2008. Contemporary Sociology 37(1):80-81 From the review: “Integrating disparate literatures on tourism, postindustrial cities, global migration and cultural commoditization, C. Michal Hall and Jan Rath’s opening chapter lays out a straightforward thesis…. Like the Little Italys and Chinatowns which drew tourists...... KEEP READING
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Who is Being Taught? Jewish Early Childhood Education’s Adult-Centered Approach
2007. Chapter 3 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: One of three chapters analyzing the roles played by families, schools, communities, and advocacy groups in Jewish education. To read the chapter, click...... KEEP READING
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Why Jewish Parents Send Their Children to Day Schools
2007. (with Steven M. Cohen). Chapter 4 in Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice. Edited by Jack Wertheimer. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Pp. 80-100. Studies in the sociology of education: One of three chapters analyzing the roles played by families, schools, communities, and advocacy groups in Jewish education. To...... KEEP READING
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