- Description
- 1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "This cultural history of the American-Israeli relationship, beginning in the nineteenth century and going through 1947, when the state of Israel was established, to the present puts a focus on religion, Christian and Jewish, and its connections with individual American artists and their intense relationships with Israel. In high relief are the ... revealing and often little-known stories of individual writers, thinkers, and superstar performers in music, theater, dance, film, and television and their relationships"--
- Uniform Title
- Starstruck in the Promised Land (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Starstruck in the Promised Land (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Sailing to Jerusalem : from the early American romance with the Holy Land to Palestine mania (1817-1917) -- American journalists, artists, and adventurers and the Zionist movement (1917-1947) -- Mozart in the desert : the American creative class and the birth of Israel (1947-1957) -- Advocates for Zion : Sinatra, Steinbeck, Baldwin, and Bellow (1957-1967) -- Of poets, singers, and a young medic : Israel's battles and America's culture wars (1967-1977) -- Israel at thirty : political action, messianic expectations, and literary controversies (1977-1997) -- Cross-cultural admiration and upheaval : three divas, an assassination, and bitter critiques (1997-2017).
- LCCN
- 2018059435
- OCLC
- ssj0002192957
- Author
Goldman, Shalom.
- Title
Starstruck in the Promised Land [electronic resource] : how the arts shaped American passions about Israel / Shalom Goldman.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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