Alleyoop To Aliyah African American Hoopsters In The Holy Land David A Goldstein by David A. Goldstein 9781510724792, 1510724796 instant download after payment.

In Israel, basketball matters. Sure it’s just a game, but it represents so much more than that, perhaps reflecting the demographic makeup of the state. Many have observed that in countries in which there are large numbers of immigrants from all over the world, achievements in sports take on an added resonance. Israel, founded in 1948 with the specific goal of welcoming and being inhabited by Jews from around the globe, is just such a country. You might assume that its “Jewishness” makes the people of Israel homogenous, but it is quite the opposite. The country’s tiny population (about eight million people total, approximately six million of them Jewish) is made up of some seventy different nationalities. As Irish economist David McWilliams describes it, “Israel … is a monotheistic melting pot of a diaspora that brought back with it the culture, language, and customs of the four corners of the earth.”