Whose people? : Wales, Israel, Palestine / / Jasmine Donahaye

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819291403321
• Autore: Donahaye Jasmine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012; ©2012
• ISBN: 1-299-20126-1; 0-7083-2484-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Collana: Writing Wales in English
• Disciplina: 821.92
• Soggetti: Israel Foreign relations Wales; Wales Foreign relations Israel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a beginning and an end; Tracing the Wales-Israeltradition; The mission to convert the Jews; Welsh semitic discourse; Twentieth-centurypolitical comparisons; The Jewish response; Conclusion; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Wales has a long history of interest in Palestine and Israel, and a close interest in Jews and Zionism. This monograph, the first to explore the subject, asks searching questions about the relationship that Wales has with the Israel-Palestine situation. Surveying Welsh missionary writing, fictional imaging of Jews, and the political use of Palestine and Israel, it challenges received wisdom about Welsh tolerance and liberalism, and identifies a complex and unique relationship. Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine makes an important contribution to international Jewish studies, to the study o