Tours That Bind Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism

Name: Tours That Bind Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
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ISBN: 9780814748176

ISBN-10: 0814748171

ISBN-13: 9780814748176

Edition: 2012

Authors: Shaul Kelner

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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 diaspora a lifelong sense of attachment to Israel based on ethnic and political solidarity. Over a half-billion dollars (and counting) has been spent cultivating this attachment, and despite 9/11 and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict the tours are still going strong. Based on over seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, Shaul Kelner provides an on-the-ground look at this…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Hiroko Ikegami, an art historian who specializes in American art and the postwar globalization of the art world, is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University.Shaul Kelner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Deploying Tourism



Striking Roots



Contesting Claims



Consuming Place



Collapsing Distance



Encountering Community



Locating Self



Building Diaspora


Methodological Appendix


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author