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Author: Moshe Davis Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313020841 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 206
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The continuing relationship between America and the Holy Land has implications for American and Jewish history which extend beyond the historical narrative and interpretation. The devotion of Americans of all faiths to the Holy Land extends into the spiritual realm, and the Holy Land, in turn, penetrates American homes, patterns of faith, and education. In this book Davis illuminates the interconnection of Americans and the Holy Land in historical perspective, and delineates unique elements inherent in this relationship: the role of Zion in American spiritual history, in the Christian faith, in Jewish tradition and communal life, and the impress of Biblical place names on the map of America as well as American settlements and institutions in the State of Israel. The book concludes with an annotated select bibliography of primary sources on America and the Holy Land.
Author: Moshe Davis Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313020841 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
The continuing relationship between America and the Holy Land has implications for American and Jewish history which extend beyond the historical narrative and interpretation. The devotion of Americans of all faiths to the Holy Land extends into the spiritual realm, and the Holy Land, in turn, penetrates American homes, patterns of faith, and education. In this book Davis illuminates the interconnection of Americans and the Holy Land in historical perspective, and delineates unique elements inherent in this relationship: the role of Zion in American spiritual history, in the Christian faith, in Jewish tradition and communal life, and the impress of Biblical place names on the map of America as well as American settlements and institutions in the State of Israel. The book concludes with an annotated select bibliography of primary sources on America and the Holy Land.
Author: Ruth Kark Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814325230 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 398
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This volume provides new insights into the role of U.S. consuls in the Ottoman Middle East in the special context of the Holy Land. The motivations and functioning of the American consuls in Jerusalem, and of the consular agents in Jaffa and Haifa, are analyzed as part of the US diplomatic and consular activity throughout the world, and of Western involvement in the Ottoman Empire and in Palestine during the century preceding World War I. The processes of cultural, demographic, economic, environmental, and settlement change and the contribution of the US consuls and American settlers to development of and modernization of Palestine are discussed. Based on primary archival sources such facets as the role of consuls regarding the use of extraterritorial privileges, Western religious and cultural penetration, control of land and land purchase, non-Muslim settlement, judicial systems, and technological innovations are considered from American, Ottoman, and local viewpoints.
Author: Stephanie Stidham Rogers Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739148443 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 176
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This book examines the relationship between American Protestants and Palestine from 1842-1917. The eastward views of Palestine drew the ancient biblical past into the present for Protestants, thus bringing a sharper focus to a new frontier and inventing the idea of a Christian Holy Land.
Author: Hilton Obenzinger Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691009735 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
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In the 19th century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers and artists flocked to Palestine. Focusing on works by Melville and Twain, this book throws new light on the construction ot American identity in the 19th century.
Author: Lester Irwin Vogel Publisher: Penn State University Press ISBN: 9780271008844 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 338
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To See A Promised Land explores the fascination that Americans historically have had with the land of the Bible. By focusing on the period before World War I, Lester Vogel uncovers the various ways in which Americans (primarily Protestants) typically thought about and knew the Holy Land prior to the land's politicization and embroilment in the conflict between Arab and Jewish national interests. During this period, there were literally hundreds of popular books, pamphlets, and articles about the Holy Land available to American readers. Although most Americans never visited the Middle East, they nevertheless had distinct images of what the land was like through these writings, their churches, and their own reading of the Bible. On the very day of his assassination in 1865, even President Lincoln contemplated a tour of the Holy Land at the end of his term in office. Americans who did travel to the Middle East took with them preconceptions and brought back with them descriptions that, in turn, helped to reshape continually the popular image of the Holy Land. One of the most celebrated journeys to the East was the 1867 "Quaker City Tour," immortalized by Mark Twain in his Innocents Abroad. Vogel suggests that this unique relationship between Americans and a foreign land might be seen as an expression of "geopiety," a term coined by the geographer John Kirtland Wright to describe a certain mixture of place, past, and faith. To See A Promised Land draws upon a wide variety of written accounts--those of American travelers (from Twain to Theodore Roosevelt), missionaries, settlers and colonists, explorers, archaeologists, biblical scholars, and diplomats and officials--in order to shed light on this fascinating aspect of American thought and character.
Author: Gil Zohar Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1612286909 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 68
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This series gives kids from other parts of the world insight into various aspects of life in Israel today. Written and crafted by three authors currently living in Jerusalem, this series is the first of its kind to bring such insight to children. Americans in the Holy Land tells the story of brave Americans who lived in and influenced the new state of Israel. This book tells about American explorers and archaeologists, colonists, visionaries, politicians, philanthropists, soldiers, spies, scholars and athletes all of whom played (or are still playing) a major role in Israel and Palestine. We'll also meet some of the estimated 350,000 people who hold dual American and Israeli citizenship.Americans in the Holy Land is the improbable story of US-born heroes, including spies, archaeologists and sports stars, whose efforts have helped make Israel into a thriving and endlessly fascinating country.
Author: PENGUIN GROUP (UK) Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141906138 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international community. So where did it all go wrong? How did it end, less than two years later, in the total failure of Barak's peace efforts, his defeat at the polls and ejection from office? How did he open the way not to peace, but to Ariel Sharon? Drawing on exclusive interviews with all the major international figures involved, this book traces the history of the Middle East peace process from Barak's election, through the peace talks at Camp David to the current Road Map. It illuminates the characters of Clinton, Arafat, Sharon and many others, and offers many insights into one of the most complex political political situations in the world today.
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Author: Stephanie Stidham Rogers
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