CIE has compiled the following list of books, articles, videos on our website, and surveys of American Jewish opinion to guide understanding of the relationship between Diaspora Jewry and Israel.

Books

Ben-Rafael, Eliezer, Judit Bokser Liwerant, and Yosef Gorny (eds.). Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations. Brill, 2014.

Ben-Rafael, Eliezer, Mikhail Lyubansky, Olaf Glöckner, Paul Harris, Yael Israel, Willi Jasper, Julius Schoeps. Building a Diaspora: Russian Jews in Israel, Germany and the USA. Brill, 2006.

Cohen, Erik H. The Jews of France Today: Identity and Values. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Cohen, Steven M. American Assimilation or Jewish Revival? Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Cohen, Steven M., and Charles S. Liebman. Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.

Cohen, Steven M. Israel-Diaspora Relations: A Survey of American Jewish Leaders. Tel Aviv: Israel-Diaspora Institute, 1990.

Diner, Hasia A. (ed.). Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Elazar, Daniel J. Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1995.

Gold. Steven J. The Israeli Diaspora. Routledge, 2002.

Goldscheider, Calvin. Israeli Society in Transition: A Social Portrait. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002.

Kelman, Ari Y. (ed.). Is Dissolution the Future of American Jewry? Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.

Klich, Ignacio, and Jeffrey Lesser (eds.). Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities. London: Frank Cass, 1998.

Levitt, Laura. American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Ravitzky, Aviezer. Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Schroeter, Daniel J., and Joseph Chetrit. Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Shain, Yossi. The Israeli Century and the Israelization of Judaism. Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2019.

Slezkine, Yuri. The Jewish Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Articles

Bayme, Steven, “American Jewry’s Identity Crisis,” Commentary, Vol. 109, No. 3 (2000): 39-43.

Bayme, Steven, “The Diaspora-Israel Relationship: New Realities, Enduring Bonds,” Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 17, Nos. 3-4 (2005): 109-120.

Bayme, Steven, “Distancing, Peoplehood, and the Future of the Diaspora-Israel Relationship,” Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Vol. 81, No. 1 (2006): 7-13.

Cohen, Steven M., “The Impact of Israel on American Jewish Identity,” Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1998): 1-28.

Cohen, Steven M., and Ari Y. Kelman, “Beyond Distancing: Young Adult American Jews and Their Alienation From Israel,” Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 28 (2008): 1-30.

Eisen, Arnold, “Dual Allegiance? American Jews and Israel,” Commentary, Vol. 67, No. 5 (1979): 33-45.

Fishman, Sylvia Barack, “American Jewishness Today: Identity and Transmissibility in an Open World,” Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Vol. 74, No. 4 (1998): 223-231.

Gitelman, Zvi, “The Decline of the Diaspora Jewish Nation: Boundaries, Content and Jewish Identity,” Jewish Social Studies (1988): 112-132.

Hacohen, Dvora, “The Law of Return as an Embodiment of the Link Between Israel and the Jews of the Diaspora,” Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 19 (1988): 61-89.

Hertzberg, Arthur, “Israel and the Diaspora: A Relationship Re-Examined,” Israel Affairs, Part II (April 2007): 169-183.

Horowitz, Bethamie, “Connections and Journeys: Assessing Critical Opportunities for Enhancing Jewish Identity,” in Jewish Identity and Education in America, Deborah Dash Moore (ed.), Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press (2001): 211-238.

Kaplan, Dana Evan, “The Ties That Bind: Diaspora Jews and the State of Israel,” Israel Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2007): 161-173.

Kimmerling, Baruch, “Diasporization of Israeli Society,” Israeli Sociology, Vol. 4, no. 1 (2002): 5-33.

Liebman, Charles, “Diaspora Influence on Israel: The Ben-Gurion-Blaustein ‘Exchange’ and Its Aftermath,” Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 34 (1974): 271-280.

Liebman, Charles, “Reflections on Israel and the Diaspora: Restructuring Israel-Diaspora Relations,” Israel Studies (1996): 315-322.

Levy, Daniel, “Diasporic Nationhood: Between Israel and America,” International Political Sociology, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2010): 162-177.

Mellibovsky, Marta, “Argentine Jews and Israel: A Complex Relationship,” Latin American Jewish Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2004): 45-58.

Sasson, Theodore, “Mass Mobilization to Marginalization: The American Jewish Israel Lobby, 1948-2001,” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2004): 219-248.

Sheffer, Gabriel, “Homeland and Diaspora: An Analytical Perspective on Israeli-Jewish Diaspora Relations,” Ethnopolitics (September 2020): 379-399.

Sheffer, Gabriel, “A Nation and Its Diaspora: A Re-Examination of Israeli-Jewish Diaspora Relations,” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Winter 2002).

Shain, Yossi, “Jewish Kinship at a Crossroads: Lessons for Diaspora Politics,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 111, No. 1 (1996): 45-70.

Wertheimer, Jack, “Recent Trends in American Jewish Philanthropy,” Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Vol. 78, Nos. 2/3 (2002): 45-56.

Videos

“Diaspora-Israel Relations: What Unites Jewish Communities,” Gil Troy and Steven Bayme, Center for Israel Education, July 25, 2022 (37:26).

“Israel and American Jews: The Case for Advocacy, the Case for Content,” Steven Bayme and Cheryl Fishbein, Center for Israel Education, June 17, 2021 (50:06).

“Israel and American Jews: Cultural Ties and Tensions, Part 1,”  Steven Bayme, Center for Israel Education, June 16, 2021 (30:01).

“Israel and American Jews: Cultural Ties and Tensions, Part 2,” Ken Stein, Jay Schaefer, Jackie Weiss and Steven Bayme, Center for Israel Education, June 16, 2021 (39:45).

Surveys of Attitudes and Closeness of American Jews and Israel

American Jewish Committee, “2000 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion,” September 2000.

American Jewish Committee, “2001 Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion,” November-December 2001.

American Jewish Committee, “AJC Surveys of American Jewish Opinion (1993-2024).”

American Jewish Committee, “2024 Survey of American Jewish Opinion,” March-April 2024.

Pew Research Center, “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” February-June 2013.

Pew Research Center, “Jewish Americans in 2020,” May 2021.

Pew Research Center, “How U.S. Jews Are Experiencing the Israel-Hamas War,” April 2024.

United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federations of North America, National Jewish Population Survey 2000-01, published 2003.

Council of Jewish Federations, National Jewish Population Survey 1990, published 1991.