List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction 1. The Loss of Jewish Property in the Arab World 2. Jewish Claims in the Context of the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Peace 3. The Status of Jewish Property Claims Today Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
"Clear, rigorous, and elegant, this book will stir up enormous discussion. It may even serve as a guide to peace negotiations in the Middle East." -- Yehouda Shenhav, professor of sociology and anthropology, Tel-Aviv University, and author of The Arab-Jews: Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity "For far too long the injustices done to Jews who lost property in Arab countries between 1948 and 1965 have been ignored or exploited for political profit. For this meticulous study Michael R. Fischbach scoured Israeli, Arab, and other archives. By documenting the different policies adopted by Arab countries toward Jewish property and compensation for its expropriation, and by examining the obstacles raised by Israeli governments and front organizations to prevent Jews from Arab countries from reaching compensation agreements with those who actually took their property, Fischbach has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of these complex issues. Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries provides the basis for fair and politically productive settlements of the claims of both Palestinians and Jews against governments whose policies have deprived them of their homes, their livelihoods, and their fortunes. This is old-school, archive-based history at its best." -- Ian S. Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Michael R. Fischbach is professor of history at Randolph-Macon College. His Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict received Honorable Mention at the first annual Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award Contest. He is also the author of State, Society, and Land in Jordan and The Peace Process and Palestinian Refugee Claims: Addressing Claims for Property Compensation and Restitution, and the editor-in-chief of The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa.
"Clear and elegant. I have no doubt that this book will stir up enormous discussion. It may even serve as a guide to peace negotiations in the Middle East, if they should again take place." -- Yehouda Shenhav, author of The Arab-Jews: Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity
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