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32706
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English
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Contest and Controversy in the Creation of the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center
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Waltham, MA
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Brandeis University
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PhD
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"In August 1984 Brigham Young University, an American private university affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly referred to as the Mormon Church), broke ground on a massive study center on the slopes of Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. That porject sparked an intense three-year controversy in Israeli society that played out in both local and international media and exacerbated already-sharp socio-religious divides plaguing Israeli society and politics. What made this dispute even more notable was the international attention it garnered and the intervention of 154 members of the US Congress in order to see the building completed. This dissertation explores the relational history of this controversy, examining the perspectives of fervently religious Orthodox Jews and their allies desperately opposed to the center's creation in Jerusalem, as well as those of more secular-leaning Jews, Palestinian residents of the city, the leadership of the Mormon church and BYU, and even the US government. In a careful study of these various stakeholders, this work demonstrates the political nature of the controversy, but also describes the way that the question of a Mormon edifice in Jerusalem touched on complex questions of Israeli and Jewish identity, and the very character of one of the world's holiest cities." [Author's abstract]
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