Outsider in the Promised Land : : An Iraqi Jew in Israel /

Outsider in the Promised Land : : An Iraqi Jew in Israel / / Nissim Rejwan.

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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 leaders...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Rejwan, Nissim,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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