Divergent Jewish cultures
Subtitle: Israel and America
By: edited by Deborah Dash Moore and S. Ilan Troen
Contributors: Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-; Troen, S. Ilan 1940-
Series: Studies in Jewish culture and society
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The construction of a secular Jewish identity / S. Ilan Troen; title: Producing the future / Jeffrey Shandler; title: Moroccan Jews and the shaping of Israel's sacred geography / Yoram Bilu; title: Identity, ritual, and pilgrimage / Michael Feige; title: Mirror, mirror on the wall / Jenna Weissman Joselit; title: Sculpting an American Jewish hero / Beth S. Wenger; title: Imagining Europe / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; title: The Shoah as Israel's political trope / Gulie Ne'eman Arad; title: "I am other" / Nurith Gertz; title: "A drastically bifurcated legacy" / Tresa Grauer; title: The impact of statehood on the Hebrew literary imagination / Arnold J. Band; title: Becoming ethnic, becoming American / Ewa Morawska; title: Strangers no longer / Ira Katznelson; title: Changing places, changing cultures / Daniel J. Elazar; title: Epilogue on living in two cultures / Arthur Aryeh Goren