Research Catalog

Title

The Arabs and the Holocaust : the Arab-Israeli war of narratives / Gilbert Achcar ; translated by G.M. Goshgarian.

Author

Achcar, Gilbert.

Publication

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Goshgarian, G. M.

Description

x, 386 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Considers conflicting Middle-East perspectives on the Holocaust, analyzing such topics as Arab responses to Nazism, the creation of Israel, and the destruction of Palestine.

Uniform Title

Arabes et la Shoah. English

Alternative Title

Arabes et la Shoah.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Antisemitism > Arab countries
• Holocaust denial > Arab countries
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion
• Arabs > Attitudes
• Public opinion > Arab countries
• National socialism > Public opinion
• Antisemitism > Public opinion
• Jews > Public opinion
• Arab countries > Relations > Israel
• Israel > Relations > Arab countries

Note

• Originally published in France by Actes Sud as Les arabes et la Shoah.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-358) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: The Time of the Shoah -- Arab Reactions to Nazism and Anti-Semitism, 1933-47 -- 1. The Liberal Westernizers -- 2. The Marxists -- 3. The Nationalists -- 4. Reactionary and/or Fundamentalist Pan-Islamists -- Part II: The Time of Nakba -- Arab Attitudes to the Jews and the Holocaust from 1948 to the Present -- 5. The Nasser Years (1948-67) -- 6. The PLO Years (1967-88) -- 7. The Year of the Islamic Resistances (1988 to the Present) -- Conclusion: Stigmas and Stigmatization

ISBN

• 9780805089547 (alk. paper)
• 0805089543 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009035591

OCLC

• 229026316
• SCSB-12664422

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library