Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0002
Shalom Goldman
This chapter details the earliest stages of the American obsession with Palestine. It provides capsule narratives of visits to Ottoman Palestine by Herman Melville and Mark Twain, and early settler colonies of Christian missionaries, such as the Adams Colony and the free-living “American colony.” The content also sources the American obsession with Israel to the Bible, and a Christian desire to convert Jews to their beliefs.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0001
Shalom Goldman
The introduction provides a short history of Israel along with a list of the American travelers to have recorded their observations about the country from the days of British Palestine through Sept. 11, 2001, and to the present day. The section goes on to introduce the strong tie between Evangelical American Christians and Israel. Although Israel in the 1940s was identified as a cause of the American left, by the 1980s, sympathies more significantly aligned with the American right. The author’s own experiences and relationship to Israel as a New York City-born Jew are also introduced.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0007
Shalom Goldman
This chapter traces the growing complexity of the American relationship to Israel: from American telethon fundraisers to concerted criticism to the rise of American Evangelical support for Israel. It also details the growing complexities around the question of how to treat the Palestinian territories. Additional topics include the growing phenomenon of “Jerusalem Syndrome,” or cult-like religious zealotry focused on Israel, as well as the treatment of Israel in several American best-selling novels. The chapter concludes with the response to the First Intifada and the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0005
Shalom Goldman
This chapter details the release of the Leon Uris novel Exodus and subsequent film adaptation as well as the less celebrated Frank Sinatra vehicle The House That I Live In. The pages also recount the kidnapping of 8-year-old Yossele Schumacher by his Orthodox Israeli grandparents, as well as the extradition drama between Israel and the US concerning Dr. Robert Soblen. Finally, the chapter explores the respective relationships to Israel of writers James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, and Saul Bellow.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0009
Shalom Goldman
The epilogue presents the contemporary emergence of Israeli-made entertainment on the world stage. The narrative walks through 9/11 and its consequences up to the present day, including the friendly relationship between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Finally, the pages account for the championing of Israel by the American far-right via Evangelical donations and the continuing criticisms of Israeli actions including those of Edward Said and BDS.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0006
Shalom Goldman
This chapter examines the bond between American poet W.H. Auden and Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. It also tells of the author’s own experiences as an American student on kibbutz followed by his unplanned joining of the Israeli military as a combat medic who patrolled Israel’s tense borders. The Yom Kippur War between Israel and allies Syria and Egypt, which reified American Jewish commitment to Israel, are detailed. Additional accounts include that of Father Daniel Berrigan, one of the first concerted American critics of Israeli “imperialism.” The varied experiences of Johnny and June Carter Cash, Bishop Pike, and Meyer Lansky with respect to Israel are also rendered.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0003
Shalom Goldman
Beginning with the “reconquest of Jerusalem” of the British over the Turks, this chapter details the transition to British rule and the seeds sown for future conflict. The Balfour Declaration served as a clarion call both to Jews and American Evangelicals, for whom the obsession with a Jewish return to Jerusalem resounded with Biblical import. The chapter also details opponents of Zionism, such as Joseph P. Kennedy, appointed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as ambassador to Great Britain during the transition to British rule in Palestine. Further, it accounts for the two main branches of political belief in the Yishuv, Palestine’s Jewish community: Labor Zionism, embodied by David Ben Gurion, and Revisionism, embodied by Vladimir Jabotinsky. Finally, the chapter explores Ghandi’s relationship to Israel, the rise of the Nazi state vis a vis British Palestine, and American pro-Israel activism and fundraising in New York City and on Broadway, by such champions as Ben Hecht.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0008
Shalom Goldman
This chapter details Israel’s embrace by American pop cultural divas Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Barbra Streisand even as American criticism of Israel built to a higher pitch. It The pages also explore the increasing ambiguity of outlook on Israel by various American celebrities, including one-time supporter Stevie Wonder, and continued supporters Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney. Finally, it presents Israel’s fierce response to its perceived critics, both political and cultural, including President Jimmy Carter and the controversial opera The Death of Klingoffer.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-07DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652412.003.0004
Shalom Goldman
This chapter examines the fraught dynamics preceding and immediately following the birth of the Jewish state of Israel following the conclusion of World War II, and the participation of Americans such as Leonard Bernstein in the celebration of that birth. These pages also introduce the concept of dual loyalty, or tension that American Jews felt questioning whether to identify first and foremost with the USA or the Jewish state, which was settled, in part, by premising American support for Israel on stopping the pressure for American Jews to immigrate to the newly defined state. The chapter concludes with an account of Bernstein’s symphony tour of an Israeli countryside on continued war-footing. Israel becomes fully an American cause.
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