The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

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

Jeffery Shandler and Beth S. Wegner, eds.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Arthur A. Goren and the editors examine American tourism and travel to pre-state Israel, representations of the holy land in exhibitions and world fairs, and the symbols and public culture of American Zionism.

National Musum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania Library.