Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. Based on seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, the author provides an on-the-ground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties.
Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. Based on seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, the author provides an on-the-ground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties.
Takes a different approach toward reaching an understanding between two peoples who have known little but mutual hostility and suspicion. Based on interviews of 34 Palestinian and Israeli teenagers, this book presents narratives of their day-to-day lives, including their interests, facts about their families, friendships, and neighbourhoods.
Since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel has been torn by a deeply rooted conflict between secular and religious Jews. This book analyses the complexity of this 'quiet civil war' through more than sixty interviews of religious and secular Jews, as well as reports of key events.
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Voices from the Ground and Visions for the
In this collection of essays, the authors have brought together a group of peacemakers - Christian, Jewish, and Muslim - whose religious convictions compel them towards peace in Israel/Palestine.
Jerusalem, which means "city of peace", is one of the most bitterly contested territories on earth. This book explains the policies of the Israelis and Palestinians toward the city. Describing the "facts on the ground", it analyzes why reconciling the competing claims is so difficult.
A study of the social integration of Holocaust survivors into post-war Israeli society. Drawing on a wide range of sources and personal interviews, the book examines, from all sides, the charged encounters between Holocaust survivors and the established Jewish population in Israel.
Contains 13 essays which encompass just over four-and-a-half centuries of the thousands of years of Jerusalem's past from the Muslim conquest in 638 until the eve of the Crusader onslaught in 1099. Topics include the physical infrastructure, the authorities and the local population, art and archite
