Hebron Jews : memory and conflict in the land of Israel / Jerold S. Auerbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, Jerold S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israelis--Colonization--West Bank.

Israelis.

Land settlement--West Bank.

Land settlement.

West Bank--History.

West Bank.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

In this first comprehensive history in English of the Jews of Hebron, Jerold S. Auerbach explores one of the oldest and most vilified Jewish communities in the world. Spanning three thousand years, from the biblical narrative of Abraham's purchase of a burial cave for Sarah to the violent present, it offers a controversial analysis of a community located at the crossroads of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle over national boundaries and the internal Israeli struggle over the meaning of Jewish statehood. Hebron Jews sharply challenges conventional Zionist historiography and current media understanding by presenting a community of memory deeply embedded in Zionist history and Jewish tradition. Auerbach shows how the blending of religion and nationalism_Orthodoxy and Zionism_embodied in Hebron Jews is at the core of the struggle within Israel to define the meaning of a Jewish state.

Contents:

Biblical Hebron

Holy site

Community

Catastrophe

Return

Renewal

Crisis

Endurance

Legitimacy

Memory.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-8183-404-3

1-282-49714-6

9786612497148

0-7425-6617-X

OCLC:

434006277