Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity
Since 2000, nearly one hundred fifty thousand young adult Jews have participated in Birthright Israel, conceived to curb assimilation by shifting an entire generation of Diaspora Jews from a trajectory of noninvolvement with the Jewish community to one of identity and engagement. birthright israel is a free ten-day educational experience available to any young adult Jew between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six. Most of those who have received the "gift" to reconnect with their heritage...
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The remarkable story of Birthright Israel, an intensive ten-day educational program designed to connect Jewish young adults to their heritage
1 Next Year in Jerusalem 12 Dreams Realized and Shattered: Israel in the Mind of American Jews 193 Sites and Sights 334 A People Revolution 525 Shared Encounters 726 Pedagogy for People 947 An Organizational Culture 1158 Participants and Evaluation 1379 Participants' Voices 15510 The Tenth Day: What We Learned 171Notes 187Bibliography 199Acknowledgments 209Index 213
\ From the Publisher"...the book is a success...Recommended."--Choice\ "Readers will come away feeling that those parts of this book that are devoted to portraits of the participants in all aspects of Birthright Israel and what happens to them are enlightening and worthy of attention. Those who are unfamiliar with the program will be enriched by reading about this bold effort to insure Jewish continuity."--Jerusalem Post\ "[Ten Days of Birthright Israel] is pleasurable to read and highly recommended to those interested in a synthesis of the ambitious research into this impressive educational effort. It is to be hoped that this valuable evaluation will continue to track this program and its long-term sociological and pedagogical impact will be assessed."--American Jewish History\ "[Saxe and Chazan] provide an informative insiders' account of how Birthright has become an agency that works with 30 different organizations to design and administer trips tailored to different types of young Jews (religious, secular, LGBT, environmentalist, etc.) from 56 countries."--Jewish Book Review\ \ \
