Our American Israel The Story of an Entangled Alliance

How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a critical eye on the two nations' turbulent history together, Amy Kaplan unearths the roots of controversies that may well divide them in the future.

About the author

Amy Kaplan was Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of Our American Israel, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture, and The Social Construction of American Realism, she was a past president of the American Studies Association and was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Product details

• Authors: Kaplan Amy, Amy Kaplan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.04.2025
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9780674301788
• ISBN: 978-0-674-30178-8
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions (packing): 14 x 21 x 2 cm
• Subjects: Exodus, Intifada, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Holocaust, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Lebanon, ADL, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, International Relations, Arafat, Carter, Jewish Studies, Elie Wiesel, Middle Eastern history, History of the Americas, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Zionism, anti-Semitism, Nazism, AIPAC, Holocaust Memorial, al-Qaeda; AIPAC; Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry; Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; ADL; Anti-Semitism; Arafat; Menachem Begin; Carter; Zionism; Richard Crossman; Exodus; Holocaust; Intifada; Lebanon; Nazism; I. F. Stone; Holocaust Memorial, Menachem Begin, Richard Crossman, Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, I. F. Stone, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith