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The American Campaign for Soviet Jews: Lessons for Activism Today
Tinker, Tourist, Soldier, Spy: Western Tourist Visits to Aid Refuseniks
Freedom Seders & Matzohs of Hope: Religion in the Western Campaign for Soviet Jews
Your Soviet Bat Mitzvah Twin: Engaging Youth in the Fight for Soviet Jewry.
Languages English, Hebrew
Based in: Nashville, TN, USA
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Biography
Shaul Kelner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in the sociology of contemporary Jewish experience and the intersections of culture and politics in Jewish life. With the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is writing a book about how activists roused American Jews and mobilized them to fight for Soviet Jewish emigration rights. An alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program, Prof. Kelner has been a Fellow of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute for Advanced Studies and of the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies. His first book, Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright Tourism (NYU Press 2010), won awards from the Association for Jewish Studies and American Sociological Association.
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