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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)
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).
A cogent analysis of the political and cultural factors that shaped American Zionism in its early stages.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Forging an American Zionism: The Maccabaean | 15 |
Ch. 2 | A Clash of Ideologies: Reform Judaism vs. Zionism | 39 |
Ch. 3 | Zionism in the Public Square | 64 |
Ch. 4 | A Modern Synagogue in Jerusalem | 95 |
Ch. 5 | The Social worker and the Diplomat: Maurice B. Hexter and Sir John Hope Simpson | 113 |
Ch. 6 | Jewish Immigration to Palestine: The Zionists and the State Department | 137 |
Ch. 7 | The American Jewish Conference: A Zionist experiment at Unity and Leadership | 165 |
Ch. 8 | Out of Step with the Times: Rabbi Louis Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary | 189 |
Afterword | 213 | |
Notes | 219 | |
Index | 249 |