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Author Auerbach, Jerold S.

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

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 223 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.
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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Subject Jews -- West Bank -- Hebron -- History.
Israelis -- West Bank -- Hebron -- History.
Land settlement -- Moral and ethical aspects -- West Bank -- Hebron.
HISTORY -- General.
Other Form: Print version: Auerbach, Jerold S. Hebron Jews. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2009 9780742566156 0742566153 (DLC) 2009001038 (OCoLC)298470871
Standard No. 9786612497148
ISBN 9780742566170 (electronic bk.)
074256617X (electronic bk.)
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