Arab and Jew : wounded spirits in a promised land / David K. Shipler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shipler, David K., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish-Arab relations.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Ethnic relations.

Israel--Ethnic relations.

Israel.

West Bank--Ethnic relations.

West Bank.

Gaza Strip--Ethnic relations.

Gaza Strip.

National characteristics, Arab.

National characteristics, Israeli.

Physical Description:

xxx, 735 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Broadway Books, [2015]

Summary:

In 1987, David K. Shipler won the Pulitzer Prize for this monumental examination of the relationship between Arabs and Jews and the origins of their prejudices. Now, this classic-revised and updated-is more significant than ever. The biases and corrosive interactions that have been building between the two peoples over the past seventy years have only sharpened amid nationalism, terrorism, and war. Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the effects of socioeconomic differences, the clashes of Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives, religious conflicts between Islam and Judaism, views of the Holocaust, and much more. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew the retired Israeli military officer now disillusioned, the Palestinian militant devoted to violent means, the Israeli and Palestinian schoolchildren who reach across the divides in search of reconciliation. Their stories, and the hundreds of others, reflect not only the reality of "wounded spirits" but also the healing inside minds necessary for eventual coexistence in the promised land. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Aversion

1 War: Earth of Brass 23

2 Nationalisms: Paradise Lost 66

3 Terrorism: The Banality of Evil 105

4 Religious Absolutism: Isaac and Ishmael 177

Part 2 Images

5 The Violent, Craven Arab 233

6 The Violent, Craven Jew 260

7 The Primitive, Exotic Arab 288

8 The Alien, Superior Jew 321

9 Segregation and Class 339

10 Sexual Fears and Fantasies 366

11 Mirrors of Semitism 394

12 The Holocaust 407

Part 3 Interaction

13 A Mingling of Cultures 441

14 Fire in the Desert 477

15 Secret Police in an Open Society 494

16 Arab Citizens of the Jewish State 525

17 The Sin of Love 579

18 The Dream 608.

Notes:

"Revised and updated"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780553447514

0553447513

OCLC:

929445408