1st Edition

Israel and Zion in American Judaism The Zionist Fulfillment

By Jacob Neusner Copyright 1993
    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1993, Israel and Zion in American Judaism: The Zionist Fulfillment is a collection of 24 essays exploring the concept of who or what is "Israel" following the establishment of the Jewish State in 1948 and the subsequent crisis of self-definition in American Jewry.

    Introduction; Zionism and Judaism; Seeking Ease in Exile; Where is Zion?; Liberalism and Zionism; Zionism as Americanism; American Jews and Israel: Two Views II; An Agenda for Conservative Judaism in Israel; American Jews and Israel: Two Views I; A Strategy for Non-Orthodox Judaism in Israel; Judaism and the Land of Israel; Israeli Imperatives and Jewish Agonies; Zionism the Ideal and an Idea of Religion; Judaism and the Zionist Problem; A Stranger at Home: An American Jew Visits Ireland; Zionism and "The Jewish Problem"; Diaspora Judaism - An Abnormality? The Testimony of History; Zionist Polemics in a Post-Zionist Age; The Tasks of Israel and Galut; Israel: The Ever-Dying People; Can there be a Revival of Zionist Ideology?; Israel and American Youth; Israel, Galut and Zionism: The Changed Scene; Whither Diaspora Judaism?; Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel: Aims and Platforms.

    Biography

    Jacob Neusner