Hebron Jews

Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23519086
AutoresJerold S Auerbach
Año2009
Fecha de publicación2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaHebron Jews (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRowman & Littlefield Publishers (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5771/9780742566170
OpenAlexW4407912637
Open LibraryOL22983213M
ISBN9780742566170
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4

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.

History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Colonization · foreign countries · Hebron · Israelis · Jews · Land settlement · Moral and ethical aspects · Moral and ethical aspects of Land settlement · West Bank