Synopses & Reviews
In this collection of lively and provocative essays, Rodinson brings his impressive expertise and sharp wit to bear on Jewish problems past and present, whilst avoiding any form of ethnocentrism.
About the Author
Maxine Rodinson studied Semitic languages, ethnography, and sociology at the Sorbonne. He later became a professor of Middle Eastern Ethnology and Old South Arabian Languages at the Sorbonne. He is the author of Israel and the Arabs, Mohammed, Marxism and the Muslim World, and Islam and Capitalism, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize for 1974.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. A Bit of Clarity at the Outset
2. Self-Criticism
3. From the Jewish Nation to the Jewish Problem
4. Nation and Ideology
5. What Is Zionism?
6. Dialogue With the Palestinians
7. A Few Simple Thoughts on Anti-Semitism
8. Arab Views of the Israeli-Arab Conflict
9. The Conditions of Coexistence
Index