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Remembering a Lost Homeland
This memoir of life in the Iraqi capital’s Jewish community is “a rare look—detailed and vivid—into a culture that is no longer extant” (Nan...
A Pluralist Perspective
Rejwan points out the error of those who think that Jews and Arabs stand in opposition, representing two confliction cultures, mentalities and tempara...
Images and Self-Images from Pre-Islamic to Modern Times
What is an Arab? Though many in the West would answer that question with simplistic stereotypes, the reality is far more complex and interesting. Arab...
Reading the Formative Years
Nissim Rejwan examines conflict that has plagued Israel - both with its neighbors and within its own borders - since its inception, placing the curren...
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From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada
On the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was nineteen years old and as much an adolescent as the average nineteen-year-old person. Issues of iden...
3000 Years Of History And Culture
This book provides an account of the Jews of Iraq, their history, culture and society. It covers the Iraqi Jewish history in three parts: from the Ass...
An Iraqi Jew in Israel
In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions amon...
Religious, Cultural, and Political Responses to the West
The book begins with reactions to the West in the works of such religious leaders as Afghani, 'Abduh, Al-Kawakibi, Rashid Rida, Qasim Amin, and Taha H...
A Critique of Yehoshafat Harkabi's Prognosis of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Perspectives on a Resurgent Civilization
''An evenhanded introduction to the questions and dilemmas facing Islam in the modern world. A wealth of source-texts by the best writers on the subje...
The Pain of Displacement
Nissim Rejwan's To Live in Two Worlds: The Pains of Displacement is a moving narrative of the practical spiritual affinity of one who loved Iraq's Jew...
Five Middle Eastern Essays
"In Orientalism and the Myth of the Arab Mind, Nissim Rejwan deftly surveys, analyses, criticizes and dismisses the primarily Western Orientalists' in...