Encounters With the "Holy Land": Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture (BRANDEIS SERIES IN AMER JEWISH HIST, CULTURE, & LIFE) - Softcover

National Museum Of American Jewish History (Philadelphia, Pa.); University Of Pennsylvania Center For Judaic Studies; University Of Pennsylvania Library

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891507001 ISBN 13: 9781891507007

Publisher: Brandeis Univ, 1998

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 this title

From the Publisher:

8 x 10 trim. 41 illus. (7 color). LC 97-76102

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brandeis Univ
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1891507001
• ISBN 13: 9781891507007
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104
• Editor: Shandler Jeffrey, Wenger Beth S.