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

Jeffrey Shandler~Beth S. Wenger~National Museum of

ISBN 10: 1891507001 / ISBN 13: 9781891507007

Editore: Brandeis Univ, 1998

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Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Codice articolo R13C-04619

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Encounters With the "Holy Land": Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series)
• Editore: Brandeis Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1891507001
• ISBN 13: 9781891507007
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.