San Antonio College Library

Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of three cities-Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron-and their intermingled Jewish, Muslim and Christian inhabitants, from the nineteenth century to the present. Each of them was and still is a mixed city. Jerusalem and...

This book traces the origins of the idea of an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe, two strains of Jewish political thought, Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism, and leading figures in each movement. The author also discusses the groups during their struggles against Nazism and the Holocaust.