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From time immemorial : the origins of the Arab-Jewish conflict over Palestine / Joan Peters.
Van Pelt Library JV8749.P3 P47 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peters, Joan, 1936-2015, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Palestine.
- Jews--Arab countries.
- Jews.
- Arab countries.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Jewish-Arab relations--History--1917-1948.
- Jewish-Arab relations.
- History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 601 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1984]
- Summary:
- Dispels the myth that Arabs and Jews lived together peacefully in former days in the Arab countries and examines Jewish and Arab immigration patterns.
- Contents:
- I. The Middle East refugees
- recognized and unrecognized. The puzzle's extra pieces ; The invitation ; The Arab Jew ; Ideology of the East, rhetoric of the West ; Last year and next year in Jerusalem: Zionism in the Arab world and the Holy Land ; Invitation declined ; Remnant of a tradition: the Arab-Jewish diaspora
- II. The creation of yesterday: early population and depopulation of the Holy Land. "Palestina": a precedent of prey ; Dhimmi in the Holy Land ; The population under the Turks: mid-nineteenth century to 1918
- III. The political influence of tradition: immigrants and in-migrants
- recognized and unrecognized. Popular misconceptions about the population of "Palestine" ; A hidden factor in Western Palestine: Arab in-migration ; A hidden movement: Illegal Arab immigration ; Official disregard of Arab immigration ; Britain's double standard ; Jews in Palestine as "illegals" and a war allies ; "Muftism" and Britain's contribution to the "final solution" ; The flight from fact.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-577) and index.
- National Jewish Book Awards - Israel, Winner, 1985
- Local Notes:
- Acc.# 200530
- Other Format:
- Online version: Peters, Joan, 1936-2015. From time immemorial.
- ISBN:
- 0060152656
- 9780060152659
- 0718125282
- 9780718125288
- OCLC:
- 9894695
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