56 Friday, August 5, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Collection of Holy Land Materials Will Be Published
America and the Holy
Land, a collection of 72
books, is being published
this month by the New
York Times' Arno Press.
The series is a joint pro-
gram of Arno, the Ameri-
can Jewish Historical So-
ciety and the Institute of
Contemporary Jewry of the
Hebrew University of Je-
rusalem.
The collection contains
"With Eyes Toward Zion:
Scholars Colloquium on
America-Holy Land Stud-
ies," being published for
the first time, and five
Arno Press anthologies:
"Call to America to Build
Zion," "Christian Pro-
tagonists for Jewish_ Resto-
ration," "Holy Land Mis-
sions and Missionaries,"
"Pioneer Settlements in the
Twenties" and "The Ameri-
can Republic and Ancient
Israel."
The remainder of the
series includes studies and
travel accounts by Chris-
tian and Jewish arch-
eologists, historians, scien-
tists, biblical scholars,
American consuls, mis-
sionaries and settlers.
According to advisory edi-
tor Moshe Davis:
"The purpose of the pre-
sent collection is to engage
the contemporary reader in
the wonder of the redisco-
very of the Holy Land by
the Western world. Out of
Frank S. De Hass. Reproduced from Buried Cities Recovered.
The Jaffa Gate. Reproduced from The New Palestine.
. DR. MOSHE DAVIS
many hundreds of books
and pamphlets, we have
chosen a sample of the writ-
ings of archeologists, histo-
rians, scientists, biblical
scholars, novelists, Ameri-
can consuls, missionaries,
tourists, and above all, set-
tlers and builders of the
land.
"In the design of this
series emphasis is laid on
the Holy Land in its natural
Middle Eastern setting. The
comparative sections includ-
ed in the selections offer a
panorama of Mediterranean
countries, of Mare Nos-
trum: the southern ports of
France, Italy, Greece, and
Turkey and the NortfTern
cities of Tangier and Cairo,
all part of that historical en-
tity called Near Eastern
Civilization, as viewed by
Americans of diverse back-
grounds and interests.
"In the mid-19th Century,
as scientific study, travel
and settlement rapidly de-
veloped in the Holy Land,
history and geography met
again. In his comprehensive
study, 'Palestine: The Phys-
ical Geography and Natural
History,' published in 1841,
John Kitto defined the Holy
Land as 'a complete coun-
try...the epitome of all phys-
ical features by which dif-
ferent countries are distin-
guished, and which very
few possess in com-
bination,' and also as 'a
country of concentrated his-
tory.'
"The encounters between
Orient and Occident, antiq-
uity and modernity, tradi-
tional faith and scientific
achievement produced a
large body of literature re-
flecting the personal dimen-
sion of these encoun-
ters."
Dr. Davis is Stephen S.
Wise Professor of Ameri-
can History and Institutions
and director of the Institute
of Contemporary Jewry at
Hebrew U. He is also chair-
man of the Study Circle on
World Jewry at the in-
vitation of Israel President
Ephraim Katzir and is re-
search professor of the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary of
America in Israel.
Editorial board for the
series includes Dr. Robert
Handy, academic dean and
professor of church history
at Union Theological Semi-
nary; Dr. Jules Davids, pro-
fessor of American history
and diplomacy at George-
town University; and Dr.
Nathan M. Kaganoff, librar-
ian and editor of the Ameri-
can Jewish Historical So-
ciety.
"With Eyes Toward.
Zion" is an expanded ver-
sion of papers presented at
a colloquium at the Nation-
al Archives in Washington
in 1975. Its bibliography in-
cludes books and pamphlets
written by American vis-
itors to the Holy Land be-
tween 1850 and 1900.
The volume includes an
introduction by Dr. Davis
and sections on the histori-
cal perspective, the Otto-
man-Muslim era, U.S. gov-
ernment resources and the
bibliography.
Other books that will be
available in the America
and Holy Land series in-
clude "White Fire: The
Life and Works of Jessie
Sampter," "Buried Cities
Recovered: Or, Explor-
ations in Bible Lands," writ-
ten by U.S. Consul Frank S.
DeHaas, and "Journal of a
Cruise."
Jessie Ethel Sampter, po-
et and writer, grew up in a
highly assimilated home.
Her father was one of the
pioneers of the Ethical Cul-
ture Movement.
Partly under the in-
fluence of an elder sister of
the poet Emma Lazarus
and of Henrietta Szold, Jes-
sie Sampter turned to the
ideology of Zionism. She
emigrated to Palestine in
1919, first living in Jerusa-
lem, where she established
evening classes for Yeme-
nite working girls.
Four years later she
moved to Rehovot, contin-
uing to do social work
among the Yemenite Jews
there. She then settled in Ki-
butz Givat Brenner where
she established and devoted
herself to the Rest -Horne,
but continued with her writ-
ing and teaching until her
death in March, 1938.
The title "White Fire" is
taken from one of Miss
Sampter's poems. Her writ-
ings and sketches of kibutz
life had a significant in-
fluence on United States Zi-
onist circles.
She became a familiar
name to the authors and
readers of Jewish Reform
prayer books in America.
and her "Yesha" became a
saga in Eretz Yisrael.
In "Buried Cities Recov-
ered," Frank DeHass re-
corded his impressions dur-
ing the 19th Century as U.S.
consul in Jerusalem. He
sought to establish with ac-.
curacy the scenes recorded
in biblical literature.
The author traveled exten-
sively throughout the Near
East, visiting places which
had never before been seen
by Americans. He suc-
ceeded in recovering and
identifying many sites that
had been considered lost.
DeHass provides the re-
sults of his personal in-
vestigations, as well as
those of other archeologists
in Egypt, Asia Minor, West-
em and Trans-Jordanic Pa-
lestine and Syria. -
Jessie E. Sarripter, 1906. Reproduced from White Fire.
JOURNAL OF A CRUM
IN THE
U. S. SHIP DELAWARE 74,
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN,
IN THE YEARS 1833 & 34,
TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH
OF A JOURNEY TO
JERUSALEM,
BY
J.
ISRAEL
and H.
LUNDT.
MAHON,
T WIDOW SERRA AND SON,
- PRINTERS. MAX
835.