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,…

Posted by kelnersj on March 19, 2024 in , book, featured, Soviet Jewry Movement

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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….

Posted by fullerra on October 11, 2011 in , Birthright Israel, book, diaspora, featured, foundations, israel, tourism

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