America and the Holy Land
AMERICA AND THE HOLY LAND America and the Holy Land is a monumental—72 volumes—series published by Arno Press. The project is a joint effort of the American Jewish Historical Society and the...
...Its purpose, explains advisory editor Moshe Davis, "is to engage the contemporary reader in the wonder of the rediscovery of the Holy Land by the western world...
...There are scholarly studies and travel accounts...
...The project is a joint effort of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
...Out of many hundreds of books and pamphlets, we have chosen a sample of the writings of archaeologists, historians, scientists, Biblical scholars, novelists, American consuls, missionaries, tourists, and above all, settlers and builders of the land...
...Call to America to Build Zion, a compilation expressing the idea that America had a special role to play in Jewish Restoration...
...Holy Land Missions and Missionaries, sermons, travel notes, and other insights of non-Jewish clergy who traveled to Palestine during the 19th century: Pioneer Settlements in the Twenties, which describes the quality of life in writings by Leo Gottesman and Mendel Silver...
...Almost all of the books in the series are reprints...
...In addition to the reprinted material, the series includes five original anthologies...
...the authors are both Christians and Jews...
...It is reviewed here by Congressman Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass), author of Honor the Promise: America's Commitment to Israel...
...The cover book of the series, published for the first time, is titled With Eyes Toward Xion: Scholars' Colloquium on America-Holy Land Studies...
...The accompanying photographs are part of the collection of the Harvard University Semitic Museum (whose staff we thank for their courteous assistance...
...and The American Republic and Ancient Israel, three patriotic sermons of the American Revolutionary period that relate Biblical sources to current events...
...Christian Protagonists for Jewish Restoration, containing writings of William Blackstone, Selig Adler (on the attitudes of Woodrow Wilson on the Balfour Declaration), and Adolph Berle which share the view that the restoration of the Jews is rooted in humanitarian, political, and moral imperatives...
...However, the entire collection spans three centuries of material—some from the 18th century and more from the yearsjust preceding, and just following, the declaration of statehood...
...most are derived from writings and observations from the 19th century...
...And, on the pages that follow, we have chosen a number of excerpts from some of the other volumes...
Vol. 3 • October 1978 • No. 10
