Goedkoop Jews Among Arabs: Contacts and Boundaries – Mark R. Cohen

During two days in May 1986 some fifty scholars, graduate students, and other interested individuals gathered at Princeton University for a colloquium entitled ‘Jews Among Contacts and Boundaries’. The conference was organised in awareness of the controversial tone in which the subject of ‘Jews and Arabs’ has been discussed in recent years. Against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Jewish-Arab relationship of the past has come under new and intense scrutiny, with historical questions often mask…