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

Michael Brown

Preface

1. Introduction: The Yishuv Discovers America
2. Vladimir Jabotinsky: A Politician Who Missed the Boat
3. Chaim Nahman Bialik: America, A Cultural Wasteland with Promise
4. Berl Katnelson: A Man of the Spirit Confronts the Land of Dollars
5. Henrietta Szold: Health, Education, and Welfare, American-Style
6. Golda Meir: "Minister of American Affairs"
7. David Ben-Gurion: Building the American Alliance
8. Afterword

Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Geographic and Name Index
Subject Index

 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.
 
America-Holy-Land Monograph Series

$44.95s / ISBN 0-8143-2536-X

396 pages
16 illustrations

1997