Traveling Jews, creating memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business.
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Traveling Jews, creating memory: Eastern Europe, Israel, and the diaspora business.
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318072/0041
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]02614e
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Durham, North Carolina, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Duke University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2007
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp67-83
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the book 'Sociology confronts the Holocaust'pp67-83
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.