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

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in Jewish culture and society.
Other Authors: Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-
Troen, S. Ilan (Selwyn Ilan), 1940-
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001], ©2001.
Series:Studies in Jewish culture and society.
Subjects:
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.
Physical Description:x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
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.