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Outsider in the promised land : an Iraqi Jew in Israel / / Nissim Rejwan



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Autore: Rejwan Nissim Visualizza persona
Titolo: Outsider in the promised land : an Iraqi Jew in Israel / / Nissim Rejwan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
Disciplina: 956.94/0049240567092
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Soggetto topico: Jews, Iraqi - Israel
Journalists - Israel
Soggetto geografico: Israel Social conditions 20th century
Israel Ethnic relations
Israel Intellectual life 20th century
Note generali: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Pictures -- Chapter 1 First Impressions -- Chapter 2 Probings -- Chapter 3 Arab Affairs Analyst of Sorts -- Chapter 4 Rachel -- Chapter 5 The Levantinism Scare -- Chapter 6 The Three Divides -- Chapter 7 Barbarians at the Gate -- Chapter 8 Gentlefolk and Upstarts -- Chapter 9 Israel’s Communal Problem -- Chapter 10 Freedom of Speech, Israel Style -- Chapter 11 The Mystery of Education -- Chapter 12 The Debate Intensifies -- Chapter 13 Stepping on ‘‘Very Delicate Ground’’ -- Afterword. Pride or Self-Effacement: On Refusing to Save Skin -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions among the various communities that had immigrated to the new Jewish state, particularly those between the politically and socially dominant Jewish leadership hailing from Eastern Europe and the more numerous Oriental Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Into this volatile mix came Nissim Rejwan, a young Iraqi Jewish intellectual who was to become one of the country's leading public intellectuals and authors. Beginning with Rejwan's arrival in 1951 and climaxing with the tensions preceding Israel's victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, this book colorfully chronicles Israel's internal and external struggles to become a nation, as well as the author's integration into a complex culture. Rejwan documents how the powerful East European leadership, acting as advocates of Western norms and ideals, failed to integrate Israel into the region and let the country take its place as a part of the Middle East. Rejwan's essays and occasional articles are an illuminating example of how minority groups use journalism to gain influence in a society. Finally, the letters and diary entries reproduced in Outsider in the Promised Land are full of lively, witty meditations on history, literature, philosophy, education, and art, as well as one man's personal struggle to find his place in a new nation.
Titolo autorizzato: Outsider in the promised land  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-292-79580-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808305203321
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