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BRINGING ZION HOME: ISRAEL IN AMERICAN JEWISH CULTURE, 1948 -1967 By Emily Alice Katz - Hardcover.

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Bringing Zion Home examines the role of culture in the establishment of the "special relationship" between the United States and Israel in the immediate postwar decades. Many American Jews first encountered Israel through their roles as tastemakers, consumers, and cultural impresarios--that is, by writing and reading about Israel; dancing Israeli folk dances; promoting and purchasing Israeli goods; and presenting Israeli art and music. It was precisely by means of these cultural practices, argues Emily Alice Katz, that American Jews insisted on Israel's "natural" place in American culture, a phenomenon that continues to shape America's relationship with Israel today. Katz shows that American Jews' promotion and consumption of Israel in the cultural realm was bound up with multiple agendas, including the quest for Jewish authenticity in a postimmigrant milieu and the desire of upwardly mobile Jews to polish their status in American society. And, crucially, as influential cultural and political elites positioned "culture" as both an engine of American dominance and as a purveyor of peace in the Cold War, many of Israel's American Jewish impresarios proclaimed publicly that cultural patronage of and exchange with Israel advanced America's interests in the Middle East and helped spread the "American way" in the postwar world. Bringing Zion Home is the first book to shine a light squarely upon the role and importance of Israel in the arts, popular culture, and material culture of postwar America.

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Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
1438454651
ISBN-13
9781438454658
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202438806

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Book Title
Bringing Zion Home : Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967
Author
Emily Alice Katz
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Jewish Studies
Publication Year
2015
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
230 Pages

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9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
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Lc Classification Number
Ds132.K38 2015
Reviews
"...[a] sophisticated work of historical scholarship ... [Katz] gives readers much to ponder." -- CHOICE, "...we owe much to Emily Alice Katz for a well-organized and sturdy monograph that renews a scholarly discussion and offers a welcome corrective to the field." -- H-Net Reviews (H-Judaic) " Bringing Zion Home will have appeal to a wide variety of disciplines and will serve as a great example of how to effectively and convincingly execute material and cultural analysis. Ultimately, Katz offers an engaging, colorful, and insightful investigation of the role of Israel in shaping American Jewish self-identity and culture." -- American Historical Review "Katz has written an engrossing account of efforts by American Jews to bring Israeli culture into their suburban lives during the postwar decades. She argues persuasively that American Jews shifted their focus away from Europe through their embrace of Israeli culture." -- Journal of American History "...[a] sophisticated work of historical scholarship ... [Katz] gives readers much to ponder." -- CHOICE
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Postwar American Jewry Reconsidered 2. Before Exodus : Writing Israel for an American Audience 3. Hora Hootenannies and Yemenite Hoedowns: Israeli Folk Dance in America 4. A Consuming Passion: Israeli Goods in American Jewish Culture 5. Cultural Emissaries and the Culture Explosion: Introducing Israeli Art and Music Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2014-007253
Dewey Decimal
956.9405/2
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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