Semites
Subtitle: race, religion, literature
By: Gil Anidjar
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780804756945; 9780804756952
Subjects: Semites -- History; Semites -- Religion; Semitic literature -- History and criticism; Antisemitism; Christianity and antisemitism; Arabs -- Public opinion; Jewish-Arab relations; East and West; Orientalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Democracy in America; title: Part 1. Semites; title: The Semitic hypothesis (religion's last word); title: Secularism; title: Part 2. Literature; title: Literary history and Hebrew modernity; title: 'Eber va-'Arab (the Arab literature of the Jews); title: Notes