Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur : : From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada / / / Nissim Rejwan.

On 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? An...

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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : : University of Texas Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword. Israel: The Teen Years
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. ''Contacting the enemy''
  • Chapter 2. In the wilderness
  • Chapter 3. The morning after
  • Chapter 4. An assortment of concerns
  • Chapter 5. Encounters
  • Chapter 6. The majority-minority syndrome
  • Chapter 7. Uses and abuses of history
  • Chapter 8. Recoupment
  • Chapter 9. Jews and muslims
  • Chapter 10. Orientalism revisited
  • Chapter 11. The ''who is a jew?'' charade
  • Epilogue
  • Index