With Eyes Toward Zion--II: Themes and Sources in the Archives of the United States, Great Britain, Turkey and Israel - Hardcover

 
9780275920906: With Eyes Toward Zion--II: Themes and Sources in the Archives of the United States, Great Britain, Turkey and Israel

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With Eyes Toward Zion II is a collection of papers by distinguished scholars who have set out to rediscover the Holy Land and what it means to America. They delve into the hundreds of books and pamphlets that have been written by archaeologists, historians, scientists, Biblical scholars, American consuls, novelists, missionaries, tourists, and, above all, settlers and builders of the land. What results is an overview of the relationship between the American people and the Holy Land until the birth of the State of Israel in 1948.

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MOSHE DAVIS is Founding Head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Stephen S. Wise Professor Emeritus in American Jewish History and Institutions. He is Chairman, Governing Council of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization under the aegis of the Israeli Presidency. An authority on contemporary Jewish life, Professor Davis specializes in the field of American Judaism. He is Project Director and General Editor of American-Holy Land Studies. His publications include: The Emergence of Conservative Judaism

wish Religious Life and Institutions in America

e Shaping of American Judaism (Hebrew). He is the author of numerous articles and editor of several series of publications, among them 13 volumes of World Jewry and the State of Israel.

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