Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, And Israeli Birthright Tourism,Used

Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, And Israeli Birthright Tourism,Used

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Winner, 2010 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Culture Section's Mary Douglas Prize for Best BookSince 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an allexpensepaid 10day pilgrimagetour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the statesupported 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 halfbillion dollars (and counting) has been spent cultivating this attachment, and despite 9/11 and the ongoing IsraeliPalestinian conflict the tours are still going strong.Based on over seven years of firsthand observation in modern day Israel, Shaul Kelner provides an ontheground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties. We ride the bus, attend speeches with the Prime Minister, hang out in the hotel bar, and get a fresh feel for young American Jewish identity and contemporary Israel. We see how tourism's dynamism coupled with the vibrant human agency of the individual tourists inevitably complicate tour leaders' efforts to rein tourism in and bring it under control. By looking at the broader meaning of tourism, Kelner brings to light the contradictions inherent in the tours and the ways that people understandtheir relationship to place both materially and symbolically. Rich in detail, engagingly written, and sensitive to the complexities of modern travel and modern diaspora Jewishness, Tours that Bind offers a new way of thinking about tourism as a way through which people develop understandings of place, society, and self.

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