Authors: Moshe Davis
ISBN-13: 9780275946210, ISBN-10: 0275946215
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: ANN
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.
The continuing relationship between America and the Holy Land has implications for American and Jewish history which extend beyond the historical narrative and interpretation. The devotion of Americans of all faiths to the Holy Land extends into the spiritual realm, and the Holy Land, in turn, penetrates American homes, patterns of faith, and education. In this book Davis illuminates the interconnection of Americans and the Holy Land in historical perspective, and delineates unique elements inherent in this relationship: the role of Zion in American spiritual history, in the Christian faith, in Jewish tradition and communal life, and the impress of Biblical place names on the map of America as well as American settlements and institutions in the State of Israel. The book concludes with an annotated select bibliography of primary sources on America and the Holy Land.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: America-Holy Land Studies as a Field of Scholarly Inquiry | 1 | |
Pt. I | Zion in America's Faith | 9 |
1 | The Holy Land in American Spiritual History | 11 |
2 | Jewish Distinctiveness Within the American Tradition: The Eretz Israel Dimension | 43 |
3 | American Christian Devotees in the Holy Land | 63 |
Pt. II | Representative Jewish Personalities | 85 |
4 | Isaac Leeser of the Historical School | 87 |
5 | Abraham I. Rice: Pioneer of Orthodoxy in America | 97 |
6 | Sir Moses Montefiore: American Jewry's Ideal | 111 |
Pt. III | "Names on the Land" | 133 |
7 | Biblical Place-Names in America (with maps) | 135 |
8 | America in Zion: Settlements and Institutions (with map) | 147 |
Pt. IV | Rediscovery of the Holy Land | 163 |
9 | Choice Readings: An Annotated Record | 165 |
Index | 183 |