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 intense rela...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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).