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The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948 »

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Authors: Naomi W. Cohen
ISBN-13: 9781584653462, ISBN-10: 1584653469
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Naomi W. Cohen

NAOMI W. COHEN is the author of several books on American Judaism, most recently Jews in Christian America: The Pursuit of Religious Equality (1992) and Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (UPNE, 1999).

Book Synopsis

A cogent analysis of the political and cultural factors that shaped American Zionism in its early stages.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Ch. 1Forging an American Zionism: The Maccabaean15
Ch. 2A Clash of Ideologies: Reform Judaism vs. Zionism39
Ch. 3Zionism in the Public Square64
Ch. 4A Modern Synagogue in Jerusalem95
Ch. 5The Social worker and the Diplomat: Maurice B. Hexter and Sir John Hope Simpson113
Ch. 6Jewish Immigration to Palestine: The Zionists and the State Department137
Ch. 7The American Jewish Conference: A Zionist experiment at Unity and Leadership165
Ch. 8Out of Step with the Times: Rabbi Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary189
Afterword213
Notes219
Index249

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