Encounters with the "Holy Land": Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture

Encounters with the "Holy Land": Place, Past and Future in American Jewish Culture

Beth S. Wenger

1998

National Museum of American Jewish History; Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania Library

Three essays illuminate American interpretations of the "holy land" by examining American tourism and travel to pre-state Israel, the representation of the holy land in exhibitions and world fairs, and the symbols and the public culture of American Zionism.