01741cam a2200337 i 4500 355774520 TxAuBib 20180907120000.0 180308s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018009015 9780674737624 $29.95 0674737628 $29.95 TxAuBib rda Kaplan, Amy,. Our American Israel [Book] : the story of an entangled alliance / Amy Kaplan. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018. 352 pages 28 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Purchased with a J. Frank Dobie Foundation grant. Includes bibliographical references 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.-- Provided by publisher. 20180907. National characteristics, American. Israel Foreign public opinion, American. Israel Foreign relations United States. United States Foreign relations Israel. CWPCP