Our American Israel : the story of an entangled alliance /
Amy Kaplan.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Lands of refuge -- Founding Israel in America -- Invincible victim -- "Not the Israel we have seen in the past" -- Future of the Holocaust -- Apocalypse soon -- Homeland insecurities.
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.--