Homeland Run: Israeli Baseball and American Transmigrants.

Q1 Arts and Humanities Contemporary Jewry Pub Date : 2023-05-13 DOI:10.1007/s12397-023-09481-2

Amir Segal

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Abstract

This paper addresses an aspect of cultural transfer and transformation by immigrants, focusing on the case of Israeli baseball, brought to Israel by Jewish migrants from the USA. As such, it examines cultural transfer as part of the transnational activities of transnational migrants. The analysis is based on interviews with 20 Jewish migrants from the USA to Israel who are engaged In Israeli baseball - as players, coaches, administrators, etc. - as well as five Israeli-born players who are also engaged in the sport. This study contributes to our understanding of transnational migration by drawing attention to the ways in which the experiences of transnational migrants are shaped by recreational activity and how transnational migrants' activities affect their host county. This occurs via transnational cultural diffusion, mediated in this case by a "critical community" of American Jews. Israeli baseball provides Jewish migrants from the USA with a means to identify with Israel as well as a sense of transnational belonging and, counter-intuitively, eases their acculturation to Israeli society.

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《家园跑》：以色列棒球和美国移民。

本文探讨了移民文化转移和转型的一个方面，重点是美国犹太移民将以色列棒球带到以色列的案例。因此，它将文化转移视为跨国移民跨国活动的一部分。该分析基于对20名从美国到以色列的犹太移民的采访，他们从事以色列棒球运动，包括球员、教练、管理人员等，以及五名同样从事这项运动的以色列出生的球员。这项研究通过提请人们注意娱乐活动对跨国移民体验的影响，以及跨国移民的活动如何影响他们的东道国，有助于我们理解跨国移民。这是通过跨国文化传播发生的，在这种情况下是由美国犹太人的“批判社区”调解的。以色列棒球为来自美国的犹太移民提供了一种认同以色列的方式，以及跨国归属感，并与直觉相反，缓解了他们对以色列社会的文化适应。

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