Encounters with the ?Holy Land?: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)

Jeffrey Shandler and Beth S. Wenger (Editors)

ISBN 10: 1891507001 / ISBN 13: 9781891507007

Published by National Museum of American Jewish History; Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania Library January 1998, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Encounters with the ?Holy Land?: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)
• Publisher: National Museum of American Jewish History; Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania Library January 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891507001
• ISBN 13: 9781891507007
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica: Medicine

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Synopsis

Three essays illuminate American interpretations of the "holy land" by examining American tourism and travel to pre-state Israel, the representation of the holy land in exhibitions and world fairs, and the symbols and the public culture of American Zionism.

About the Author

JEFFREY SHANDLER is a Dorot Teaching Fellow at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. BETH S. WENGER is Katz Family Chair in American Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania.

The book also contains essays by BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, and ARTHUR A. GOREN, Russell and Bettina Knapp Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University.