Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews

Gal, Allon

ISBN 10: 0814326307 / ISBN 13: 9780814326305

Published by The Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 1996

About this Item

First American edition. Book is clean and tight without inside markings. While the history of Zionism in the United States has been subject of numerous works, American ideological attitudes toward the State of Israel have been less frequently treated in the scholarly literature.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews
• Publisher: The Magnes Press, Jerusalem
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814326307
• ISBN 13: 9780814326305
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 2 pounds

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Synopsis

Envisioning Israel examines the deeply entwined yet often problematic historical relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine from the 1880s until 1948

About the Author

Allon Gal of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of several important books and numerous articles. Of Israeli birth and education, he received his Joint Ph. D., With Distinction, from Brandeis University's programs of Jewish and American history, and has frequently visited the United States— especially its higher institutes of learning and its Jewish community. Professor Gal, a Senior Research Fellow of Ben-Gurion Research Center, also serves on the faculty of the History Department, and is the founder and director of the Center for American Jewry, BGU. He lives with his family in Beer Sheva.