Description: Everybody says shalom! Shalom means "hello" and "good-bye" and it means "peace." Shabat shalom is the tender salutation between Jews on the eve of the Sabbath. The breathless shalom-shalom means "TIl see you later." There are probably as many variant meanings to the word shalom as there are Israels. Indeed there are many Israels. There is the land of Israel which Tacob received from God in Shechem, the present-day Nablus, for him and his descendants forever and ever. Israel is still the Palestinian Holy Land, adored by Christians, the place where Jesus Christ was born, crucified, died, and ascended. There is the Israel from one of whose Judean hills Mohammed, in a fiery chariot, rode to heaven. There is Israel, the new homeland for nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish refugees from Europe, and there is Israel, the industrial society from which another people fled in this century to become the Arab refugees. There is the Israel of the tourist, 100,000 of whom scamper through its streets and mountains, almost all of them outfitted in the pastel-colored temble, which was borrowed from the kibbutz and which looks like a sailor's hat pulled down. And there is Israel, the political integer in the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States. It is a complex land whose password is shalom. Most importantly there is Israel, the country populated by a people trying to survive, to make a living and, now and then on…
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Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Harry Golden
Publisher: Putnam
Year Printed: 1971
Original/Facsimile: Original