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U.S. Jews and Israel (2019)

Contributor(s): Steven Bayme, Director of the Contemporary Jewish Life Department of the American Jewish Committee and of the Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations
Topics(s): Diaspora Relations, Jewishness / Peoplehood, Zionism and Nationalisms
Date: May 1, 2019

Essential Reading

Steven Bayme, “American Jewry and the State of Israel: How Intense the Bonds of Peoplehood?”, Jewish Political Studies Review, vol. 20 nos. 1-2 (Spring 2008), 7-21.

Peter Beinart, “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment”, New York Review of Books, 2010.

“Blaustein-Ben-Gurion Agreement” (to be distributed).

 

Recommended Reading

Michael Barnett, The Star and the Stripes The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Steven Bayme, “As American Orthodoxy Grows, What Will Happen to Pro-Israel Advocacy?” (AJC publication available on request)

Steven Bayme, “Israel, American Jews, and Jewish Peoplehood”, in Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish eds., Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century

Theodore Sasson, The New American Zionism (NYU Press, 2014).

Gil Troy ed., The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland―Then, Now, Tomorrow (JPS  Anthologies of Jewish Thought, 2018)

Dov Waxman, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (Princeton University Press, 2016)

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