Traveling Jews, creating memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business.
TitleTraveling Jews, creating memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business.
Author
Call number940.5318072/0041
Object number02614e
Place of publicationDurham, North Carolina, United States
PublisherDuke University Press
Year of publication
2007
Physical descriptionpp67-83
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Sociology confronts the Holocaust'pp67-83
Description
Addresses identity issues among young American Jews and how their sense of themselves as Jews is formed in part through tours to Israel. These tours tend to represent Israel as the site of Jewish renewal and life, and Eastern Europe as the post-Holocaust site of Jewish death and destruction.