Divergent Jewish cultures Israel and America / [electronic resource] : edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001. - x, 358 p. - Studies in Jewish culture and society . - Studies in Jewish culture and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




Jews--Identity.--United States
Jews--Attitudes toward Israel.--United States
Jews--Social life and customs.--United States
Jews--Identity.--Israel
Israel and the diaspora.


Israel--Civilization.


Electronic books.

E184.36.E84 / D55 2001

956.9405