Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium

The promised land of Israel has been interpreted differently over the course of Jewish history by those who call it home and by the other cultures it has affected. The fourteen contributors to this volume draw upon a variety of scholarly disciplines to consider how and why Israel has been interpreted in so many different ways.

Visions of Israel from Biblical to Modern Times

"A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey"

Leonard Jay Greenspoon

A selection of 15 papers from the October 1996 gathering of the annual Klutznick Symposium in Omaha, Nebraska. The topics include anger and homecoming in 20th-century Yiddish literature, Yiddish culture and urban landscape in interwar Vilna, the Yiddish theater in Omaha from 1919 to 1969, and the metamorphosis of the matriarchs in modern Yiddish poetry. No index. Distributed in the US by Fordham University Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Yiddish Language & Culture Then & Now

Menahem Mor

Bryan F. LeBeau

The papers in this collection focus on Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Baha'i and Mormon pilgrims and travellers to the Holy Land from the 7th century to the 1990s.

Pilgrims & Travelers to the Holy Land

The Jewish Diaspora has been a central reality among the Jewish people from ancient times to the present. As a result of national disasters, military defeats, religious persecution and the desire for new places, most Jewish people have lived and continue to live outside Eretz Israel, or the state of Israel. The relationship between the Jewish Diaspora and Eretz Israel, therefore, has continued to be a burning issue.

Mutual Relations: Proceedings of the First Annual Symposium of the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair (Studies in Jewish Civilization)

Eretz Israel, Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

The series Studies in Jewish Civilization, based on the annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and Harris Center for Judaic Studies, examines Jewish history and culture around the world and throughout history. Volume 17 includes fourteen essays that provide an overview of Jews and Judaism in American popular culture. Relevant discussions of music, film, television, literature, cartoons, sports, and material culture inform our current understanding of the influence that Jewish culture has in modern American society. Taken together, these essays make a strong case that appropriate analysis of popular culture is essential for a proper understanding of something as multifaceted and varied as American Judaism and the American Jewish community. The essays recognize, even if they cannot precisely define, something distinctly “Jewish” and distinctively “American” in each of the individuals and groups featured in this collection.

Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization. Symposium

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