Presenation Powerpoint
Essential Reading
Michael B. Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, W.W. Norton, 2011, pp. 3-7, 80-97
Jonathan D. Sarna, “A Projection of America as it ought to Be: Zion in the Mind’s Eye of American Jews,” Envisioning Israel: The Changing Ideals and Images of North American Jews, American Jewish Civilization Series, Magnes Press, 1996, pp. 41-59
Recommended Reading
Brown, Michael, The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996).
Davis, John The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
Dreamland: American Travelers to the Holy Land in the 19th Century (Shapell Manuscript Collection/National Library of Israel, 2012) [Catalogue]
Glass, Joseph B. From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002).
Greenberg, Gershon, The Holy Land in American Religious Though, 1630-1948 (Lanham: University Press of America, 1994).
Hirschhorn, Sara Yael, City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017).
Kark, Ruth American Consuls in the Holy Land 1832-1914 (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1994).
Obenzinger, Hilton, American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Oren, Michael, Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (New York: Norton, 2007).
Shalev, Eran American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War (New Haven: Yale, 2013).
Shandler, Jeffrey & Wenger, Beth, Encounters with the “Holy Land”: Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture (Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History/Brandeis U Press, 1997).
Matthew Silver, First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection – Halutzim from America During the Palestine Mandate (West Hartford: Graduate Group, 3006).
Vogel, Lester I. To See A Promised Land: America and the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1993).
Waxman, Chaim I. American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989).
In addition, Moshe Davis produced a library of volumes concerning “America and the Holy Land.” In addition to his multi-volume Arno Press reprint series, see the four volumes of his With Eyes Toward Zion and also the multi-volume Guide to America – Holy Land Studies, ed. Nathan M. Kaganoff.