In the shadow of Zion : promised lands before Israel /

"From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and Christia...

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Main Author: Rovner, Adam, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, [2014]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: They Say There Is a Land . . . -- 1. Noahâ€?s Ark on the Niagara: Grand Island, New York (1818â€?1848) -- 2. Greetings from the Promised Land: Uasin Gishu, East Africa (1903â€?1905) -- 3. Angolan Zion: Benguela Plateau (1907â€?1914) -- 4. The Lost Jewish Continent: Madagascar (1933â€?1942) -- 5. New Jerusalem, Down Under: Port Davey, Tasmania (1940â€?1945) -- 6. Welcome to the Jungle: Suriname (1938â€?1948) -- Epilogue: Go to Uganda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D 
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