The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond

Book Overview

Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the "Jewish Question," as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews as the ultimate other. With the onset of Zionism, this "question" migrated to Palestine and intensified under British colonial rule and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Zionism's attempt to solve the "Jewish Question" created what came to be known as the "Arab Question," which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023119921X
• ISBN13: 9780231199216
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"