This book brings new attention to Simon Rawidowicz (1897–1957), the
wide-ranging Jewish thinker and scholar who taught at Brandeis
University in the 1950s. At the heart of Myers’ book is a chapter
that Rawidowicz wrote as a coda to his Hebrew tome Babylon and
Jerusalem (1957) but never published. In it, Rawidowicz shifted his
decades-long preoccupation with the “Jewish Question” to what he
called the “Arab Question.” Asserting that the “Arab Question”
had become a most urgent political and moral matter for Jews after
1948, Rawidowicz called for an end to discrimination against Arabs
resident in Israel—and more provocatively, for the repatriation of
Arab refugees from 1948.
Myers’ book is divided into two main sections. Part I introduces the
life and intellectual development of Rawidowicz. It traces the
evolution of his thinking about the “Jewish Question,” namely, the
status of Jews as a national minority in the Diaspora. Part II
concentrates on the shift occasioned by the creation of the State of
Israel, when Jews assumed political sovereignty and entered into a new
relationship with the native Arab population. Myers analyzes the
structure, content, and context of Rawidowicz’s unpublished chapter
on the “Arab Question,” paying particular attention to
Rawidowicz’s calls for an end to discrimination against Arabs in
Israel, on the one hand, and for the repatriation of those refugees
who left Palestine in 1948, on the other.
The volume also includes a full English translation of “Between Jew
and Arab,” a timeline of significant events, and an appendix of
official legal documents from Israel and the international community
pertaining to the conflict.
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The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781584658153
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
University Press of New England
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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