The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945

by Michael Brown

Overview

An examination of the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major Jewish leaders during and between the world wars.

The Israeli-American Connection examines the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major leaders of the yishuv, the Jewish settlement in Palestine, during and between the world wars. In six biographical chapters, Michael Brown studies Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nahman Bialik, Berl Katznelson, Henrietta Szold, Golda Meir, and David Ben-Gurian, focusing on each leader's involvement with and image of America, as well as the impact of America on their lives and careers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814344590
Publisher:	Wayne State University Press
Publication date:	02/05/2018
Series:	American Holy Land Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Brown is Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto, where he also teaches Humanities and Hebrew. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and trained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Jew or Juif?
Jews, French Canadians, and Anglo-Canadians, 1759-1914 (Jewish Publication Society, 1987) and the editor of Approaches to Antisemitism: Context and Curriculum (American Jewish Community and International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization,1994).