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The Japanese and the Jews / "The Japanese and the Jews" is a remarkable, often controversial, double portrait of two of the world's most unique peoples by an author with an intimate knowledge of both. A runaway bestseller in its original Japanese version, it has sold over 1,000,000 copies to date.

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Corporate Author	Japan--Jews.
Classification	915.20 BEN
Publisher	Japan, Weatherhill, 1972
Subject	Japan--Jews.Jewish-HistoryNational characteristics, Japanese.Jews--Psychology.Ethnopsychology--Jews--Japan.Jewish--Identity.
Description	Writing in the allusive and freely associative style characteristic of the popular Japanese essay form, the author compares and contrasts the Japanese and the Jews with keen critical insight tempered by affection. He records their attitudes and responses to such basic human matters as food, water, spiritual freedom, physical security, government and man's relation to natural forces. While drawing freely from personal experiences, literature and popular sources, he also turns to such traditional materials as medieval Japanese social and legal documents, the Talmud, and the Torah in his search for the forces that have shaped the Japanese and the Jew as we know them today. 少閲讀些193
ISBN	978-0834801585
URL	https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5100686-the-japanese-and-the-jewshttps://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14386032?q=9780834801585&c=book&sort=holdings+desc&_=1591776280715&versionId=39867093

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Originally published in Japanese, this English translation attempts to capture the author's meaning in attempting to explain the nature of a Jew born and raised in Japan.He uses the Japanese way of viewing life to reveal facets of their national character. The contrast is made for Japanese, a generally secure people living in a lush land, in grasping the fears and trials of Jewish people in a harsh landscape.

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