Looking for Pontius Pilate's Footprints Near the Western Wall: Russian Jewish Tourists in Jerusalem

Epstein, Alek D.; Kheimets, Nina G.

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“…In the Jewish market, Russian tourists have been described as disappointed with the asceticism of Jerusalem's sacred places (Epstein & Kheimets, 2001). Russian's holiday planning through social media in general showed that Russians used social media the most during the post-trip stage to share their emotions and photos, the second most popular social media use was during the holidays to stay in touch.…”

Section: Russian Touristsmentioning

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Russian Women Traveling: A Sociocultural Perspective

Miettinen¹

2017

Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Section: Russian Touristsmentioning

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Russian Women Traveling: A Sociocultural Perspective

Miettinen¹

2017

Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality Research

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“…However, a study that examined trips to Jerusalem by Russian Jewish tourists demonstrated that any tour by a member of Post-Soviet Jewish intelligentsia to Jerusalem might be viewed as a double pilgrimage (Epstein & Kheimets, 2001). The first component is a pilgrimage to King David's capital, the capital of the original and ancient Jewish state.…”

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Immigrant intelligentsia and its second generation: Cultural segregation as a road to social integration?

Epstein

Kheimets

2000

Int. Migration & Integration

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This article deals with the recent wave of migration from the former USSR to Israel analyses immigrant intelligentsias strategies of action in the public sphere. The authors argument is that by adopting a seemingly separatist course of action and founding educational cultural scientific, and political institutions inspired by traditions brought from the country of origin, what the immigrants actually do is try to integrate themselves into the host society as its distinctive but equal members. Thus it is the strategy of cultural segregation that enables the immigrant intelligentsia to occupy its own place in the multicultural mosaic of contemporary Israeli society. Cet article traite de la derni~re vague de migration venue de l' ancienne URSS ~ destination d'Isra~l. On y analyse les actions stratdgiques de l'dlite intellectuelle immigrante dans le de'bat public. Les auteurs sont d' avis qu'en adoptant un plan d" action M-,paratiste, en apparence, et en crdant des institutions pddagogiques, culturelles, sdentifiques et politiques inspirdes par les traditions apportdes du pays d' origine, Ies immigrants essaient en rrde s'intdgrer dans la socidtd d' accueil ?l titre de membres distincts mais ~gaux. C" est donc la stratdgie de s~grdgation culturelle qui permet ?z l'dlite intellectuelle immigrante de prendre la place qui lui revient dans la mosa~que multiculturelle de la socidtd isradlienne contemporaine.

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“…The core premises are that travel allows individuals to set aside conventional standards of conduct that would normally be repressed at home (Selanniemi ), that being in a liminal touristic space provides relative anonymity and freedom from scrutiny (Kim & Jamal ), that within liminal spaces, a touristic culture emerges based upon motives characterized by a sense of the temporary (Jafari , Ryan ), and that within that liminal space, behavior is informed by other tourists who are also experiencing the same or similar disassociation (Jafari ). Perhaps Epstein and Kheimets (: 42) summed it up best when they wrote, ‘becoming a tourist, however briefly, means shedding part of one's old identity and normal behavior [and] … adopting a new, temporary identity that necessarily incorporates some elements that are the opposite of the habitual personality and behavior.’…”

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Becoming a Tourist

McKercher

Lui

2013

Journal of Tourism Research

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This paper explores the processes of entry into and disentanglement from touristhood by a group of inexperienced long haul tourists making their first pleasure trip to Asia. Tourism is seen as an activity that occurs in liminal time and space, enabling the participant to adopt a new role with a different set of social structures and expected behaviors, to a greater or lesser extent, when he or she travels. While the original paper investigating this topic written by Jafai (1987) infers that the process of engagement and disentanglement is relatively quick and seamless, this study found both processes were much more complex, prolonged and subtle than previously envisioned.

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Looking for Pontius Pilate's Footprints Near the Western Wall: Russian Jewish Tourists in Jerusalem

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Russian Women Traveling: A Sociocultural Perspective

Russian Women Traveling: A Sociocultural Perspective

Immigrant intelligentsia and its second generation: Cultural segregation as a road to social integration?

Becoming a Tourist

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