Research Catalog

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, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gal, Allon.

Description

444 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

While the history of Zionism in the United States has been the subject of numerous works, American ideological attitudes toward the State of Israel have been less frequently treated in the scholarly literature. This book fills that gap. Envisioning Israel examines the complex and complicated relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in lsrael. Allon Gal initiated an international conference to distinguish how North American Jews envisioned lsrael from the late nineteenth century to the present. He selected essays from leading scholars in a variety of fields to appear in this book. Divided thematically, this collection studies topics ranging from Zionist movements in America to Israel's representation in contemporary prayer books.

Alternative Title

Changing ideals and images of North American Jews

Subject

• Israel and the diaspora
• Jews > United States > Attitudes toward Israel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0814326307 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96014959^

OCLC

• 34553424
• SCSB-12070905

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library