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Arab and Jew : wounded spirits in a promised land / David K. Shipler

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2002Edition: Revised editionDescription: xxxix, 565 pages : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0142002291
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.9405
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
Epilogue : twilight war, twilight peace
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Book Book Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section Circulation C 956.9405 Sh557a 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 120452d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-538) and index.

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

Epilogue : twilight war, twilight peace

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