Between Jew and Arab
Subtitle: the lost voice of Simon Rawidowicz
By: David N. Myers.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Tauber Institute for the study of European Jewry series
Publisher: Brandeis University Press; Published by University Press of New England
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781584657361
Subjects: Rawidowicz, Simon, -- 1897-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation; Rawidowicz, Simon, -- 1897-1957; Zionists -- Biography; Emigration and immigration -- Moral and ethical aspects; Arab-Israeli conflict; Israel -- Emigration and immigration
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This book brings new attention to Simon Rawidowicz (1897-1957), the wide-ranging Jewish thinker and scholar who taught at Brandeis University in the 1950s. At the heart of Myers' book is a chapter that Rawidowicz wrote as a coda to his Hebrew tome Babylon and Jerusalem (1957) but never published. In this coda, Rawidowicz shifted his decades-long preoccupation with the "Jewish Question" to what he Called the "Arab Question." Asserting that the "Arab Question" had become a most urgent political and moral matter for Jews after 1948, Rawidowicz called for an end to discrimination against Arabs resident in Israel - and more provocatively, for the repatriation of Arab refugees from 1948." "Myers' book is divided into two main sections. Part I introduces the life and intellectual development of Rawidowicz. It traces the evolution of his thinking about the "Jewish Question," namely, the status of Jews as a national minority in the Diaspora. Part II concentrates on the shift occasioned by the creation of the State of Israel, when Jews assumed political sovereignty and entered into a new relationship with the native Arab population. Myers analyzes the structure, content, and context of Rawidowicz's unpublished chapter on the "Arab Question," paying particular attention to Rawidowicz's calls for an end to discrimination against Arabs in Israel, on the one hand, and for the repatriation of those refugees who left Palestine in 1948, on the other."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jewish question; title: - The Arab question.