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The Only Game in Town: Navigating the Conversion Charade
FromTel Aviv Review
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Feb 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Dr Michal Kravel Tovi, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversions in Israel, an ethnographic account of the arduous conversion process female migrants from the former USSR choose to undergo in the hope that it would accelerate their integration into Israeli society. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.
Released:
Feb 26, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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