1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155516203321

Autore

Shakespeare William

Titolo

The merchant of Venice / / William Shakespeare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-304-72933-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

822

Soggetti

Shylock (Fictitious character)

Jews - Italy

Moneylenders

Venice (Italy) Drama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for the character of Shylock.  The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who is the play's most prominent and more famous villain. Though Shylock is a tormented character, he is also a tormentor, so whether he is to be viewed with disdain



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784407703321

Autore

Morris Benny <1948->

Titolo

The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem revisited / / Benny Morris [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14422-1

1-107-38566-0

1-280-43760-X

0-511-81665-0

0-511-16546-3

0-511-16618-4

0-511-16425-4

0-511-31295-4

0-511-16505-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 640 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge Middle East studies ; ; 18

Disciplina

956.04/2

Soggetti

Refugees, Arab

Palestinian Arabs

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 - Refugees

Jewish-Arab relations - History - 1917-1948

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 609-616) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to the revised edition -- 1. Background: a brief history -- 2. The idea of 'transfer' in Zionist thinking before 1948 -- 3. The first wave: the Arab exodus, December 1947 - March 1948 -- 4. The second wave: the mass exodus, April-June 1948 -- 5. Deciding against a return of the refugees, April-December 1948 -- 6. Blocking a return -- 7. The third wave: the Ten Days (9-18 July) and the second truce (18 July-15 October) -- 8. The fourth wave: the battles and exodus of October-November 1948 -- 9. Clearing the borders: expulsions and population transfers, November 1948-1950 -- 10. Solving the refugee problem, December 1948-September 1949.

Sommario/riassunto

Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem was



published in 1988. Its startling revelations about how and why 700,000 Palestinians left their homes and became refugees during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 undermined traditional interpretations as to whether they left voluntarily or were expelled as part of a systematic plan. This book represents a revised edition of the earlier work, compiled on the basis of newly-opened Israeli military archives. While the focus remains the 1948 war and the analysis of the Palestinian exodus, the new material contains more information about what happened in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, and how events there led to the collapse of Palestinian urban society. It also sheds light on the battles and atrocities that resulted in the disintegration of  rural communities. The story is a harrowing one. The refugees now number four million and their existence remains a major obstacle to peace.