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Beyond survival and philanthropy : American Jewry and Israel / edited by Allon Gal, Alfred Gottschalk.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--United States--Attitudes toward Israel--Congresses.
- Jews.
- Israel and the diaspora--Congresses.
- Israel and the diaspora.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- x, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press ; Detroit : Distributed by Wayne State University Press, [2000]
- Contents:
- Preface / Allon Gal, Alfred Gottschalk
- New dimensions. Israel and American Jewry in the twenty-first century : a search for new relationships / Steven M. Cohen, Charles S Liebman ; Responses / Steven Bayme, Sheldon Zimmerman.
- Negation of the exile?. Shlilat Ha-Galut : past and present / Yosef Gorny ; Responses. The question of Shlilat Ha-Galut in American Zionism / Jonathan D. Sarna ; Beyond Zionist theory : coming to terms with the American Jewish experience / S. Ilan Troen
- The modern Jewish Kulturkampf. American Jewry and Israel : the ways of peace / Leonard Fein ; Religious and secular Jews in Israel : a cultural war? / Aviezer Ravitzky ; Responses / David Twersky, Deborah Weissman
- Teaching and appreciating the other. Through a glass darkly : Israel in the mirror of American Jewish education / Barry Chazan ; American Jewry as reflected in the secondary school curriculum in Israel / Olga Zambrowsky, Malka Or-Chen ; Responses. Readmitting tensions in cultivating a relationship to Israel / Harvey Shapiro ; Myths and realities in teaching Israel / William Cutter ; Soul searching / Shaul R. Feinberg ; The multi-rootedness of the Israeli Jew / Gidon Elad
- American Jewish Institutions and the Jewish state. Can the center hold? / Samuel Norich ; American Jewish institutions and Israel / Shoshana S. Cardin ; Responses / Howard M. Weisbans, Eric H. Yoffie, Richard Hirsch
- A new agenda. A new agenda / Avrsaham Burg ; Responses. To stand within the covenant / Michael A. Meyer ; A reinvented Jewish polity in a globalized world / Daniel J. Elazar
- Concluding thoughts. Bridging our differences : an American perspective / Paula E Hyman ; An Israeli perspective / Allon Gal ; Postscript : liberal Judaism's interaction with Israel / Richard J. Scheuer
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0878202188
- OCLC:
- 43333581
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