LEADER 03948nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910777503103321 005 20230828232156.0 010 $a0-292-79570-X 024 7 $a10.7560/714151 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467054 035 $a(OCoLC)560510008 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245823 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000184350 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183714 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184350 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10201043 035 $a(PQKB)10491096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443329 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443329 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245823 035 $a(DE-B1597)650810 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795709 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467054 100 $a20060616d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIsrael's years of bogus grandeur$b[electronic resource] $efrom the Six-Day War to the First Intifada /$fNissim Rejwan ; foreword by Nancy E. Berg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-292-71415-7 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tForeword. Israel: The Teen Years -- $tPrologue -- $tChapter 1. ''Contacting the enemy'' -- $tChapter 2. In the wilderness -- $tChapter 3. The morning after -- $tChapter 4. An assortment of concerns -- $tChapter 5. Encounters -- $tChapter 6. The majority-minority syndrome -- $tChapter 7. Uses and abuses of history -- $tChapter 8. Recoupment -- $tChapter 9. Jews and muslims -- $tChapter 10. Orientalism revisited -- $tChapter 11. The ''who is a jew?'' charade -- $tEpilogue -- $tIndex 330 $aOn the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was nineteen years old and as much an adolescent as the average nineteen-year-old person. Issues of identity and transition were the talk among Israeli intellectuals, including the writer Nissim Rejwan. Was Israel a Jewish state or a democratic state? And, most frustratingly, who was a Jew? As Nancy Berg's foreword makes clear, these issues became more critical and complex in the two decades after the war as Israel matured into a regional power. Rejwan, an Iraqi-born Jew whose own fate was tied to the answers, addresses the questions of those days in his letters, essays, and remembrances collected in Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur. Israel's overwhelming victory in 1967 brought control of the former Palestinian territories; at the same time, Oriental Jews (i.e., those not from Europe) became a majority in the Israeli population. The nation, already surrounded by hostile, recently humiliated Arab neighbors, now had an Arab majority (Jewish, Muslim, Druze, and Christian) within its borders-yet European Jews continued to run the country as their own. Rejwan wrote tirelessly about the second-class status of Arab Israelis (and especially of Arab Jews), encouraging a more inclusive attitude that might eventually help heal the wounds left by the Six-Day War. His studies in sociology at Tel Aviv University informed his work. For his cause, Rejwan lost his job and many of his friends but never his pen. Through Munich, Entebbe, political scandals, economic crises, and the beginning of the Intifada, Rejwan narrates Israel's growing pains with feisty wit and unwavering honesty. 606 $aJews$vBook reviews 606 $aJews$zIsrael$xIdentity 606 $aJews, Iraqi$zIsrael$vBiography 607 $aIsrael$xEthnic relations 607 $aIsrael$xHistory$y1967-1993 615 0$aJews 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 615 0$aJews, Iraqi 676 $a956.9405/4092 676 $aB 700 $aRejwan$b Nissim$0643921 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777503103321 996 $aIsrael's years of bogus grandeur$93765582 997 $aUNINA