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

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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 dia...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kelner, Shaul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Tourism > Israel.
Heritage tourism > Israel.
Jews > Travel > Israel.
Jews > United States > Identity.
Heritage tourism.
Jews > Identity.
Jews > Travel.
Tourism.
Israel.
United States.
Table of 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author.

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