Segal Amir
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Contemp Jew. 2023 May 13:1-24. doi: 10.1007/s12397-023-09481-2.
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.
本文探讨了移民带来的文化转移与转变的一个方面，重点关注由来自美国的犹太移民引入以色列的棒球运动。因此，它将文化转移视为跨国移民跨国活动的一部分进行研究。分析基于对20名从美国移民到以色列且参与以色列棒球运动的犹太移民（包括球员、教练、管理人员等）以及5名同样参与这项运动的以色列本土球员的访谈。这项研究通过关注跨国移民的经历如何受到娱乐活动的塑造以及跨国移民的活动如何影响其所在东道国，有助于我们理解跨国移民。这是通过跨国文化传播实现的，在这种情况下由美国犹太人的“关键群体”进行调解。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一种跨国归属感，而且与直觉相反的是，它还减轻了他们融入以色列社会的难度。
