An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948-1957 Zvi Ganin Set in the first decade of modern Israel's existence, Zvi Ganin's study illuminates a pivotal chapter in American Zionist history and en evolving dynamic between American Jews and Israel. Ganin offers an insightful look at the changing relationship of American Jews and the reborn Jewish nation/state. It is one of the first in-depth analyses of the subject during this key period. As the cold war rages, leaders in all camps are shown attempting to shape and control the tangled circumstances that engulf them - especially American Jewish Committee president Jacob Bluestein, Israeli founding father David Ben-Gurion, and American presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Tapping into private correspondence, diaries, oral history, scholarly literature, and other archival materials, Ganin provides a richly detailed look at motivations, passions, and attitudes of Jewish and Israeli leaders on numerous issues - none more affecting than in the stormy debate over ducal loyalty. Zvi Ganin is the author of Truman, American Jewry, and Israel, 1945-1948 and Kiriyat Hayyim: Experiment in an Urban Utopia (in Hebrew). He has written extensively on American Jewish and Israeli history and lives in Israel.