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America and Zion : essays and papers in memory of Moshe Davis

Title
America and Zion : essays and papers in memory of Moshe Davis / edited by Eli Lederhendler and Jonathan D. Sarna.
Publication
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Davis, Moshe.
  • Lederhendler, Eli.
  • Sarna, Jonathan D.
Description
286 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Series Statement
America-Holy Land series
Uniform Title
America-Holy Land monographs.
Subject
  • Americans > Palestine
  • Americans > Israel
  • Christian Zionism
  • Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Palestine
  • Pilgrims and pilgrimages > Israel
  • Jews, American > Palestine
  • United States > Relations > Palestine
  • Palestine > Relations > United States
  • United States > Relations > Israel
  • Israel > Relations > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Achavah and history: reflections on the historical emphases of Moshe Davis / Jonathan D. Sarna -- Vision and persistence: origins of the America-holy land studies project / Robert T. Handy -- Moshe Davis and the new field of America-holy land studies / Michael Brown -- "Each mouldering ruin recalls a history": nineteenth-century images of Jerusalem and the American public / John Davis -- Historical perspective through the study of ordinary people: William H. Rudy (1845-1915), a member of the America-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem / Ruth Kark -- Dedicating and consecrating the land: Mormon ritual performance in Palestine / Steven Epperson -- Esco Fund Committee: the story of an American Jewish foundation / Marianne Sanua -- Cultural model for America-holy land studies: one early example / Mathew Silver -- Ambiguous missionary: Robert Lindsey in Israel, 1948-1970 / Yaakov Ariel -- America Olim and the transfer of innovation to Palestine, 1917-1939 / Joseph B. Glass -- Armchair travelers to the holy land: the travel accounts of Rev. J. Lynch, OSF / Margaret M. McGuinness -- Franciscan monastery in Washington, D.C.: "the holy land of America" / David Klatzker -- Jerusalem, Vilna, Chicago: Gedaliah Bublick's wartime dilemma / Gerson Greenberg.
Call Number
*PBN 02-4796
ISBN
0814330347
LCCN
2002004801
OCLC
49519116
Title
America and Zion : essays and papers in memory of Moshe Davis / edited by Eli Lederhendler and Jonathan D. Sarna.
Imprint
Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2002.
Series
America-Holy Land series
America-Holy Land monographs.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Davis, Moshe.
Lederhendler, Eli.
Sarna, Jonathan D.
Research Call Number
*PBN 02-4796
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