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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 223 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780742566170
  • 074256617X
  • 1282497146
  • 9781282497146
  • 9786612497148
  • 6612497149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hebron Jews.DDC classification:
  • 956.95/1 22
LOC classification:
  • DS110.H4
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Biblical Hebron -- Holy site -- Community -- Catastrophe -- Return -- Renewal -- Crisis -- Endurance -- Legitimacy -- Memory.
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 understa.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)281840

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

Biblical Hebron -- Holy site -- Community -- Catastrophe -- Return -- Renewal -- Crisis -- Endurance -- Legitimacy -- Memory.

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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 understa.

English.