Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel

by Jerold S. Auerbach

In this first comprehensive history in English of the Jews of Hebron, Jerold S. Auerbach explores one of the oldest and most vilified Jewish communities in the world. Spanning three thousand years, from the biblical narrative of Abraham's purchase of a burial cave for Sarah to the violent present, it offers a controversial analysis of a community located at the crossroads of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle over national boundaries and the internal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742566153
• ISBN13: 9780742566156
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"