If there had been no Holy Land - a literally disillusioning place of unkempt, faith-based absurdity - Mark Twain might have had to invent one. In some ways, for generations of Americans, he did.
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As American as Mark Twain, Jerusalem, and shattered illusions
In time for July 4, an exhibit and catalog at the National Library in Jerusalem highlight 19th Century U.S. interest in a Palestine the visiting Twain bitterly called "dream-land."
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01 0 0Oh no, but where is the lost Arab "Palestine"?
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- 04 Jul 2012
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I thought that the Jews destroyed an Arab country called Palestine, a country populated by Arab Palestinians, full of lost Arab cities and villages. Where is this country? Could it be that what the Israelis say it true? Could it be that the first Zionists did come to a vastly unpopulated, barren, desolated and backward place?
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Inventing the Holy Land American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine,1865–1941 and American Palestine:Melville, Twain,and the Holy Mania
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- 05 Jul 2012
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stop that poor propaganda... read also Haim Gebrer: Remembering and Imagining Palestine: Identity and Nationalism from the Crusades to the Present
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