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The legacy of Birthright Israel for a generation of American Jews.

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 About the Author

About the Author

Shaul Kelner is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of the award-winning Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism and of A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews.

Reviews

"Tours that Bind is an exceptional work. Shaul Kelner offers one of the finest social scientific studies of contemporary Jewish life in a generation." Riv-Ellen Prell, author of Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation "Tours that Bind ... Serve[s] up some fascinating insights into one of the most daring and effective social experiments of the modern Jewish Diaspora." - The Jerusalem Post