Background
Moshe Davis was born on the 12th of June, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. His parents were William and Ida (Schenker) Davis.
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Jewish Religious Life and Institutions in America: An Historical Study
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1953
Darkhe ha-Yahadut ba-Amerikah Jewish religious life and institutions in America. Language: Hebrew
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1953
Israel: Its Role in Civilization (AUTHOR INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION)
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1956
The birthday of the world
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1959
Israel, Its Role in Civilization (America and the Holy Land)
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1977
Zionism in transition (Publications of the Continuing Seminar on World Jewry)
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1980
With Eyes Toward Zion - III: Western Societies and the Holy Land (With Eyes Toward Zion)
( A narrative complement to Eyes Toward Zion, Volume II (...)
A narrative complement to Eyes Toward Zion, Volume II (Praeger, 1986), this important new volume presents a comparative analysis of the influence of the Holy Land on Western Societies. Researched and written by a distinguished team of international scholars, Eyes III illuminates both parallelisms and unique elements in the idea of the Holy Land in the United States, Canada, Iberoamerica, Great Britain, France, and Germany. The pervasive Holy Land influence in these countries and the unique elements inherent in each culture are perceived through four constructs: diplomatic policy, Christian devotion, Jewish attachments, and cultural ties. The editors and contributors provide a detailed examination of the political and economic interests of the Western societies in the Holy Land, the role of Zion in Christian denominations, the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition and communal life, and the effect of the Holy Land on Western literature, art, and pilgrimage. Part I analyzes North America's early involvement with Palestine, focusing particularly on the writings of early Christian travellers from the U.S. and the role these visitors played in forming America's concept of the Holy Land. A separate chapter compares and contrasts the U.S. and Canadian experience. Parts II and III examine the Iberoamerican and European experience. The long, wide ranging, and significant relationships between the Holy Land and France, Germany, and the Latin American Republics are fully explored. Focusing primarily on the nineteenth century, Part IV documents the sturdy Biblical-Holy Land-British bond. The chapters in this volume are replete with references to the writings of archaeologists, historians, scientists, biblical scholars, novelists, consuls, missionaries, tourists and, above all, settlers and builders of the Land - all attesting to the intrinsic place of the Holy Land in the world imagination.
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1986
Jewish distinctiveness within the American tradition: The Eretz Yisrael dimension as case illustration (The B.G. Rudolph lectures in Judaic studies)
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1986
With Eyes Toward Zion--II: Themes and Sources in the Archives of the United States, Great Britain, Turkey and Israel (With Eyes Toward Zion)
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With Eyes Toward Zion II is a collection of papers by distinguished scholars who have set out to rediscover the Holy Land and what it means to America. They delve into the hundreds of books and pamphlets that have been written by archaeologists, historians, scientists, Biblical scholars, American consuls, novelists, missionaries, tourists, and, above all, settlers and builders of the land. What results is an overview of the relationship between the American people and the Holy Land until the birth of the State of Israel in 1948.
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1986
America and the Holy Land (With Eyes Toward Zion)
( The continuing relationship between America and the Hol...)
The continuing relationship between America and the Holy Land has implications for American and Jewish history which extend beyond the historical narrative and interpretation. The devotion of Americans of all faiths to the Holy Land extends into the spiritual realm, and the Holy Land, in turn, penetrates American homes, patterns of faith, and education. In this book Davis illuminates the interconnection of Americans and the Holy Land in historical perspective, and delineates unique elements inherent in this relationship: the role of Zion in American spiritual history, in the Christian faith, in Jewish tradition and communal life, and the impress of Biblical place names on the map of America as well as American settlements and institutions in the State of Israel. The book concludes with an annotated select bibliography of primary sources on America and the Holy Land.
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1995
Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, 1800-1948 (With Eyes Toward Zion)
( This fifth volume of the With Eyes Toward Zion series b...)
This fifth volume of the With Eyes Toward Zion series brings together 19 internationally renowned scholars to interpret how Jerusalem returned to the world stage in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The rediscovery of the Holy Land coincided with the greatest era of Christian missions and the birth of Zionism, and the face of Jerusalem began to change markedly. This volume explores those changes, looking at the influx of travelers and explorers to the Holy Land, and the evolving theological concepts among the various religious groups. This discussion of the rediscovery of the Holy Land delves into an issue that is at the forefront of current world discussion: the meaning of Jerusalem to Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
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1997
The Living Testify
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2000
Moshe Davis
Edit ProfileEducation
He was recipient of a bachelor's degree in Science from Columbia University in 1936 and became a Bachelor in the Jewish Theological Seminary's Teachers Institute in 1937. He also got a rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1942. In 1945 he became a Doctor of Philosophy of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Davis was the first American to earn a doctorate at Hebrew University. He also obtained a doctor's degree in Humane Letters in 1974 (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute Religion) and a doctor's degree in Hebrew Literature in 1986 (Jewish Theological Seminary).
Career
He held a variety of leadership positions at Jewish Theological Seminary, including serving as professor of American Jewish history, and at Hebrew University, where he was named the Stephen S. Wise Chair of American Jewish History and Institutions. In 1959 Davis established the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Davis has been credited with being the creator of the academic field of America-Holy Land Studies, the field of studies focusing on the relationship between America and the Land of Israel.
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Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, 1800-1948 (With Eyes Toward Zion)
( This fifth volume of the With Eyes Toward Zion series b...)
1997 -
With Eyes Toward Zion - III: Western Societies and the Holy Land (With Eyes Toward Zion)
( A narrative complement to Eyes Toward Zion, Volume II (...)
1986 -
America and the Holy Land (With Eyes Toward Zion)
( The continuing relationship between America and the Hol...)
1995 -
With Eyes Toward Zion--II: Themes and Sources in the Archives of the United States, Great Britain, Turkey and Israel (With Eyes Toward Zion)
( With Eyes Toward Zion II is a collection of papers by d...)
1986 - The Emergence of Conservative Judaism The Historical School in 19th Century Amer 1963
- Israel: Its Role in Civilization (AUTHOR INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION) 1956
- Jewish distinctiveness within the American tradition: The Eretz Yisrael dimension as case illustration (The B.G. Rudolph lectures in Judaic studies) 1986
- The Living Testify 2000
- The birthday of the world 1959
- Jewish Religious Life and Institutions in America: An Historical Study 1953
- Israel, Its Role in Civilization (America and the Holy Land) 1977
- Darkhe ha-Yahadut ba-Amerikah Jewish religious life and institutions in America. Language: Hebrew 1953
- Zionism in transition (Publications of the Continuing Seminar on World Jewry) 1980
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Jerusalem in the Mind of the Western World, 1800-1948 (With Eyes Toward Zion)
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Moshe Davis was married to Lottie Keiser and had 2 children: Zev and Tamar.
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