UCL Americas Public Seminar Series: Promised Land - The Worlds of American Zionism since 1948
02 October 2024, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm
Join Professor Doug Rossinow (Metro State University, USA) for the first seminar of the 2024/25 series.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Sudershana Dave
Location
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10351 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PNUnited Kingdom
During the 75 years after the creation of the State of Israel, Zionists in the United States achieved hegemony in American Jewry and served as a pillar of support for Israel. American Zionism was a major branch of a transnational religious-national movement that navigated international affairs and the challenges of Jewish life in the USA while continually negotiating the terms of its fidelity to an overseas state. This presentation explains that negotiation by examining themes and events in US Zionism’s history after 1948 in national, transnational, and international contexts.
Chaired by Nick Witham
About the Speaker
Doug Rossinow
Doug Rossinow is professor in the Department of Ethnic, Gender, Historical, and Philosophical Studies at Metro State University in St. Paul, Minnesota (USA). The author of several books, he is composing Promised Land: The Worlds of American Zionism, 1942–2024, which will be published by Oxford University Press.
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