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book – Prof. Shaul Kelner

Prof. Shaul Kelner

book

A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews

AmazonNYU Press New York University Press, 2024 ★ Winner, 74th National Jewish Book Award Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the American Jewish experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan–Bush years. What do Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic®, the fitness craze, the Philadelphia Flyers, B-grade spy movies,…

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Tours That Bind — A Study of Birthright Israel

Tours That Bind Diaspora, Pilgrimage &Israeli Birthright Tourism Shaul Kelner AmazonNYU Press New York University Press, 2010 ★ Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Association for Jewish Studies ★ Honorable Mention, Mary Douglas Prize, ASA Culture Section A new way of thinking about tourism as a way through which people develop understandings of place, society, and self….

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Summary

Purchase |  Contents |  Press |  Op-Eds |  Summary Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that are cropping up all over the world, this tour seeks to foster in the American Jewish…

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Press

Forward Core Connection By Harriet Hartman July 14, 2010 How Birthright Israel works. Tablet Magazine Breeding Zionism by Adam Kirsch June 15, 2010 Is the Birthright Israel tour designed to foster a love of Israel or is it simply a chance to hook up? The Jerusalem Post A Guided Tour of Birthright by Abigail Klein…

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Contents

CHAPTERS 1 DEPLOYING TOURISM How did a leisure activity like tourism come to figure as a political strategy for building bridges between nation states and transnational diasporas? This chapter introduces the case of Taglit / Birthright Israel, a heritage tour program for diaspora Jews, situating it in the context of the broader field of diaspora…

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