Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon RawidowiczThis 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 Myers analyzes the structure, content, and context of Rawidowicz's unpublished chapter on the "Arab Question," paying particular attention to Rawidowicz's calls for an end to discrimination against Arabs in Israel, on the one hand, and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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part 1 The Jewish Question | 21 |
Part 2 The Arab Question | 89 |
Between Jew and Arab | 135 |
Epilogue | 181 |
Appendix A Historical Timeline | 189 |
Appendix B The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948 | 191 |
Appendix C The Law of Return 57101950 | 194 |
Appendix F United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 207 |
Appendix G United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 November 29 1947 | 214 |
Appendix H United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 III | 236 |
Appendix I United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273 III | 240 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Acknowledgments | 301 |
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Appendix D The Nationality Law 57121952 | 196 |
Appendix E The Land Acquisition Validation of Acts and Compensation Law 57131953 | 202 |
Back Cover | 309 |
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