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Title:

Divergent Jewish cultures : Israel and America / edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

x, 358 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Jews--United States--Identity.
Jews--United States--Attitudes toward Israel.
Jews--United States--Social life and customs.
Jews--Israel--Identity.
Israel and the Diaspora.
Israel--Civilization.
Israel--Civilization.
United States--Civilization.

Other Authors:

Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-
Troen, S. Ilan (Selwyn Ilan), 1940-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The construction of a secular Jewish identity / S. Ilan Troen -- Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler -- Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography /Yoram Bilu -- Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige -- Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. Wenger -- Imagining Europe / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- The Shoah as Israel's political trope / Gulie Ne'eman Arad -- "I am other" / Nurith Gertz -- "A drastically bifurcated legacy" / Tresa Grauer -- The impact of statehood on the Hebrew literary imagination / Arnold J. Band -- Becoming ethnic, becoming American / Ewa Morawska -- Strangers no longer / Ira Katznelson -- Changing places, changing cultures / Daniel J. Elazar -- Epilogue on living in two cultures / Arthur Aryeh Goren.

Series:

Studies in Jewish culture and society

ISBN:

9780300084269
0300084269

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46952389

LCCN:

2001002536

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)