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Arab and Jew : wounded spirits in a promised land / David K. Shipler.
- Title
- Arab and Jew : wounded spirits in a promised land / David K. Shipler.
- Author
- Shipler, David K., 1942-
- Publication
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1987, c1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DS119.7 .S476 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 596 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the relationships, mutual images, and stereotypes that have evolved between Arabs and Jews in Israel and in territorities under Israeli control.
- Subject
- Note
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1986.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [557]-562.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part one : aversion. War : earth of brass -- Nationalisms : paradise lost -- Terrorism : the banality of evil -- Religious absolutism : Isaac and Ishmael -- Part two : images. The violent, craven Arab -- The violent, craven Jew -- The primitive, exotic Arab -- The alien, superior Jew -- Segregation and class -- Sexual fears and fantasies -- Mirrors of Semitism -- The Holocaust -- Part three : interaction. A mingling of cultures -- Fire in the desert -- Secret police in an open society -- Arab citizens of the Jewish state -- The sin of love -- The dream.
- ISBN
- 0140103767 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- ^^^87002564^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library