Traveling Jews, creating memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business.
TitreTraveling Jews, creating memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business.
Auteur
Call number940.5318072/0041
N° d'objet02614e
Lieu de publicationDurham, North Carolina, United States
EditeurDuke University Press
Année de publication
2007
Paginationpp67-83
MatérielArticle
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.