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Esther Meir-Glitzenstein - Zionism in an Arab Country: Jews in Iraq in the 1940s - Zionism in an Arab Country explores the relations between the Zionist establishment in Israel, and the Jewish community in Iraq. This relationship centered on two organizations: a Zionist movement and a defense organization. By reviewing the activity of these organizations, Esther Meir-Glitzstein examines the decade preceding mass immigration, and reveals the political, societal, economic and cultural developments that shaped the history of Iraqi Jewry in this crucial period.
The book covers:
? The relations between the Jewish minority and the Muslim-Arab majority in Iraq - in the context of the rise of the local national government, its struggle against British colonialism, and its efforts to lay foundations of an Iraqi nation.
? Struggles within the Jewish community between different sectors of society, political groups, and ideologies of the time regarding Jewish orientation.
? The relationship between the Zionist establishment and Iraqi Jewry: how it changed during
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