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Envisioning Israel : the changing ideals and images of North American Jews
- Title
- Envisioning Israel : the changing ideals and images of North American Jews / edited by Allon Gal.
- Publication
- Jerusalem : Magnes Press, Hebrew University ; Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gal, Allon.
- Description
- 444 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- American Jewish civilization series
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Overview: envisioning Israel, the American Jewish tradition / Allon Gal -- A projection of America as it ought to be: Zion in the mind's eye of American Jews / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Henrietta Szold's progressive American vision of the yishuv / Michael Brown -- "Anu banu artza" in America: the Americanization of the halutz ideal / Arthur Aryeh Goren -- Envisioning Israel in the liturgies of North American liberal Judaism / David Ellenson -- Israel as symbol and as reality : the perception of Israel among Reconstructionist Jews in the United States / Stephen Sharot and Nurit Zaidman -- Israel in American Jewish education / Walter Ackerman -- American experts in the design of Zionist society : the reports of Elwood Mead and Robert Nathan / S. Ilan Troen -- Envisaging Israel: the case of the United Jewish Appeal / Menahem Kaufman -- Bonding images: Miami Jews and the campaign for Israel Bonds / Deborah Dash Moore -- Homelands of the heart: Israel and Jewish identity in American Jewish fiction / Sylvia Barack-Fishman -- Israel as reel: the depiction of Israel in mainstream American films / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Dual loyalties: Zionism and liberalism / Naomi W. Cohen -- Are we one? Menachem Begin and the long shadow of 1977 / Jerold S. Auerbach -- Did American Jews really grow more distant from Israel, 1983-1993? a reconsideration / Steven M. Cohen -- Weakening ties : American Jewish baby-boomers and Israel / Chaim I. Waxman -- Breaking the taboo: critics of Israel and the American Jewish establishment / Jack Wertheimer.
- Call Number
- *PXY 97-1441
- ISBN
- 0814326307 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96014959
- OCLC
- 34553424
- Title
- Envisioning Israel : the changing ideals and images of North American Jews / edited by Allon Gal.
- Imprint
- Jerusalem : Magnes Press, Hebrew University ; Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1996.
- Series
- American Jewish civilization series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gal, Allon.
- Research Call Number
- *PXY 97-1441