LEADER 04822nam 2201105Ia 450 001 9910458331803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-4918-6 010 $a0-8147-4842-2 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814749180 035 $a(CKB)2560000000013054 035 $a(EBL)865641 035 $a(OCoLC)779828160 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000429886 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282389 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000429886 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430869 035 $a(PQKB)10504630 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325824 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865641 035 $a(OCoLC)614476277 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4847 035 $a(DE-B1597)548466 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814749180 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865641 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386279 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000013054 100 $a20091022d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTours that bind$b[electronic resource] $ediaspora, pilgrimage, and Israeli birthright tourism /$fShaul Kelner 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4817-1 311 $a0-8147-4816-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $t1 Deploying Tourism -- $t2 Striking Roots -- $t3 Contesting Claims -- $t4 Consuming Place -- $t5 Collapsing Distance -- $t6 Encountering Community -- $t7 Locating Self -- $t8 Building Diaspora -- $tMethodological Appendix -- $tGlossary -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aSince 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 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. 606 $aTourism$zIsrael 606 $aHeritage tourism$zIsrael 606 $aJews$xTravel$zIsrael 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIdentity 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $a10-day. 610 $a1999. 610 $aAmerican. 610 $aBased. 610 $aBirthright. 610 $aIsrael. 610 $aJews. 610 $aKelner. 610 $aShaul. 610 $aSince. 610 $aall-expense-paid. 610 $aeffort. 610 $afirst-hand. 610 $aforge. 610 $ahave. 610 $ahundreds. 610 $aknown. 610 $alook. 610 $amodern. 610 $amuch-debated. 610 $amuch-emulated. 610 $aobservation. 610 $aon-the-ground. 610 $aover. 610 $apilgrimage-tour. 610 $aprovides. 610 $aseven. 610 $athis. 610 $athousands. 610 $aties. 610 $atourism. 610 $atransnational. 610 $avisited. 610 $ayears. 610 $ayoung. 615 0$aTourism 615 0$aHeritage tourism 615 0$aJews$xTravel 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 676 $a338.4/7915694 700 $aKelner$b Shaul$01014520 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458331803321 996 $aTours that bind$92364458 997 $aUNINA