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Starstruck in the Promised Land : how the arts shaped American passions about Israel /

"This cultural history of the American-Israeli relationship, beginning in the nineteenth century and going through 1947, when the state of Israel was established, to the present puts a focus on religion, Christian and Jewish, and its connections with individual American artists and their intens...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldman, Shalom (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sailing to Jerusalem : from the early American romance with the Holy Land to Palestine mania (1817-1917)
  • American journalists, artists, and adventurers and the Zionist movement (1917-1947)
  • Mozart in the desert : the American creative class and the birth of Israel (1947-1957)
  • Advocates for Zion : Sinatra, Steinbeck, Baldwin, and Bellow (1957-1967)
  • Of poets, singers, and a young medic : Israel's battles and America's culture wars (1967-1977)
  • Israel at thirty : political action, messianic expectations, and literary controversies (1977-1997)
  • Cross-cultural admiration and upheaval : three divas, an assassination, and bitter critiques (1997-2017).