Outsider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel

by Nissim Rejwan

Book Overview

In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions among the various communities that had immigrated to the new Jewish state, particularly those between the politically and socially dominant Jewish leadership hailing from Eastern Europe and the more numerous Oriental Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Into this volatile mix came Nissim Rejwan,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722362
• ISBN13: 9780292722361
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"