The Jews and the Japanese: Successful Outsiders - Softcover

Shillony, Ben-Ami

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9780804816359: The Jews and the Japanese: Successful Outsiders

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ISBN 10: 0804816352 ISBN 13: 9780804816359

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 1992

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"Few peoples have drawn the 'us' and 'them' line so clearly and maintained it for so long."From The Jews and the Japanese

It is difficult to imagine two more widely differentalmost incompatiblesocieties than those of the Jews and the Japanese: a people spread over the four corners of the world versus a people with an almost uninterrupted history of sovereignty in its own land: geographical heterogeneity versus linguistic and cultural homogeneity; a cosmopolitan experience versus an island mentality; strict religious and moral commandments versus groupbased and aesthetically bound values. Yet, there are also surprising analogies between these two peoples. It is this extraordinary combination of similarities and differences that are explored.

In The Jews and the Japanese, Professor Shillony describes how these two peoples, both rich in cultural heritage and historical experiences, have interacted with the Christian West, their outstanding achievements and immense tragedies, and their attempts to integrate with the West and its repeated rejection of them.

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Jews and Japanese today occupy leading positions in commerce, science, scholarship, letters and the arts. They are the two most modern and Westernized non-Christian peoples. The author compares the rich cultural heritage and historical experience of these two groups, providing insights into their basic differences as well as their similarities. His study offers perspectives on the historical experience of the Jews and the Japanese and on their respective positions in the modern world.

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