Tours That Bind : : Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism / / Shaul Kelner.

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 dia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1 Deploying Tourism
  • 2 Striking Roots
  • 3 Contesting Claims
  • 4 Consuming Place
  • 5 Collapsing Distance
  • 6 Encountering Community
  • 7 Locating Self
  • 8 Building Diaspora
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author