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Starstruck in the Promised Land : how the arts shaped American passions about Israel
- Title
- Starstruck in the Promised Land : how the arts shaped American passions about Israel / Shalom Goldman.
- Author
- Goldman, Shalom
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- 244 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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 relationships with Israel. In high relief are the ... revealing and often little-known stories of individual writers, thinkers, and superstar performers in music, theater, dance, film, and television and their relationships"--
- Subjects
- Artists > Political activity
- Christian Zionism
- Popular culture > Political aspects
- United States
- Israel
- International relations
- 1900-1999
- Artists > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century
- Christian Zionism > United States > History > 20th century
- Popular culture > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Relations > Israel
- Israel > Relations > United States
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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, and bitter critiques (1997-2017).
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11617
- ISBN
- 9781469652412
- 1469652412
- LCCN
- 2018059435
- OCLC
- 1079400188
- Author
- Goldman, Shalom, author.
- Title
- Starstruck in the Promised Land : how the arts shaped American passions about Israel / Shalom Goldman.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11617