America and Zion : Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis,9780814330340

America and Zion : Essays and Papers in Memory of Moshe Davis

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ISBN13: 9780814330340
ISBN10: 0814330347
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher(s): Wayne State Univ Pr
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Summary

Moshe Davis was a preeminent scholar of contemporary Jewish history and the rounding head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A recognized leader in the field of bicultural American/Jewish studies, he was a mentor to educators and academics in both Israel and North America and an active colleague of American Christian scholars involved in interfaith study and dialogue. These wide-ranging essays, many of them presented at a colloquium that Professor Davis had planned but did not live to attend, honor him by exploring the theme of Zion as an integral part of American spiritual history and as a site of interfaith discourse. Not only do these essays stress the role of individuals in history, but they also incorporate views outside those of mainstream religions.

American attitudes toward the land of the Bible reflect both Jewish values that arose from their abiding attachment to Zion and the uniquely American Christian vision of a utopian pre-industrial, pre-urban, pre-secularized world. Whereas American Christians expecte

Author Biography

Eli Lederhendler is Stephen S. Wise Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7(2)
Foreword: America and Zion 9(14)
Eli Lederhendler
Part I: Moshe Davis: The Man and The Scholar
Achavah and History: Reflections on the Historical Emphases of Moshe Davis
23(10)
Jonathan D. Sarna
Vision and Persistence: Origins of the America--Holy Land Studies Project
33(6)
Robert T. Handy
Moshe Davis and the New Field of America--Holy Land Studies
39(10)
Michael Brown
Part II: Historical Studies
``Each mouldering ruin recalls a history'': Nineteenth-Century Images of Jerusalem and the American Public
49(26)
John Davis
Historical Perspective Through the Study of Ordinary People: William H. Rudy (1845--1915), a Member of the American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem
75(16)
Ruth Kark
Dedicating and Consecrating the Land: Mormon Ritual Performance in Palestine
91(26)
Steven Epperson
The Esco Fund Committee: The Story of an American Jewish Foundation
117(44)
Marianne Sanua
A Cultural Model for America--Holy Land Studies: One Early Example
161(24)
Matthew Silver
The Ambiguous Missionary: Robert Lindsey in Israel, 1948--1970
185(16)
Yaakov Ariel
American Olim and the Transfer of Innovation to Palestine, 1917--1939
201(32)
Joseph B. Glass
Armchair Travelers to the Holy Land: The Travel Accounts of Rev. J. Lynch, OSF
233(10)
Margaret M. McGuinness
The Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C.: ``The Holy Land of America''
243(12)
David Klatzker
Jerusalem, Vilna, Chicago: Gedaliah Bublick's Wartime Dilemma
255(22)
Gershon Greenberg
Appendix: Primary Occupations of North American Applicants for Immigration to Palestine, January 1, 1919--May 30, 1920 277(2)
Notes on Contributors 279(4)
Index 283

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