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Israel's Place in the Middle East: A Pluralist Perspective » (First)
Authors: Nissim Rejwan
ISBN-13: 9780813016016, ISBN-10: 0813016010
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date Published: August 1999
Edition: First
Author Biography: Nissim Rejwan
Book Synopsis
1998 National Jewish Book Award winner in which the author argues that the cultural and religious similarities between Arabs and Israelis should be the foundation of lasting peace rather than grounds for permanent opposition.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Pt. I | The Jews and Their Neighbors | 1 |
| Retrospect: Then and Now | 3 | |
| 1 | Jews and Arabs: Past and Present | 7 |
| Claims and Counterclaims | 8 | |
| The Historical Record | 17 | |
| The Myth of "Arab Anti-Semitism" | 21 | |
| Christianity's Inroads | 30 | |
| Islam and the Jews: Theory and Reality | 36 | |
| History, Historiography, and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | 43 | |
| 2 | Jews and Arabs: The Cultural Heritage | 48 |
| A Formative Period | 49 | |
| Judeo-Arabic: Origins, Influence on Hebrew | 57 | |
| Four Jewish Philosophers | 65 | |
| A Literary Transformation | 70 | |
| Maimonides and His Works | 75 | |
| 3 | Europe's Dark Legacy | 81 |
| Voluntary and Compulsory Ghettos: Jews as Transients | 82 | |
| In Russia and Poland: The Ghetto's Lasting Imprint | 89 | |
| Jews East and West | 97 | |
| A Tale of Three Emancipated Jews | 100 | |
| Pt. II | Israel as a Middle Eastern Country | 109 |
| 4 | The Deeper Roots of Israel | 111 |
| Jews, Arabs, and Semites | 111 | |
| Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East | 116 | |
| One Arab's Misconceptions | 121 | |
| 5 | Ideology, Politics, and Culture | 127 |
| Origins | 127 | |
| Challenges to Israeli Democracy | 132 | |
| The Ethnopolitical Cleavage | 141 | |
| 6 | A Postnationalist Middle East | 151 |
| Pan-Arabism Runs its Course | 152 | |
| Islam, Democracy, and the Peace Process | 162 | |
| Israel's Jewish Identity | 173 | |
| Non-Jewish Israelis and Non-Israeli Jews | 183 | |
| Prospect: A Changing Israel in a Pluralist Middle East | 191 | |
| Notes | 197 | |
| Index | 209 |
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