Between Jew & Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz

by David N. Myers

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584658541
• ISBN13: 9781584658542
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 7.9"