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Arab and Jew is not David Shipler's first book-length attempt to explain a foreign culture to an American audience. In 1983, he published Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams based upon his four years in the Soviet Union, where he served as a correspondent and later bureau chief for The New York Times. While Shipler says it was much easier to be a reporter in Israel than in Russia--"Israel is a flagrantly open society"--in both countries he faced the difficulty of reporting on a society about which many Americans had strong preconceptions...
Upon his return to America in 1984 after five years in Israel, Shipler took a leave of absence from The Times and spent a year as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, where he wrote Arab and Jew. "I felt I had to be true to my own impressions and views, and that I had to write in my own voice. This is always hard for a Times reporter because you're forced into a mold in the news columns of The Times. It's on the one hand this, on the other hand that that and rarely...
...David K. Shipler...
...FRIDAY AFTERNOONS, Israelis and Arabs--soldiers in fatigues and priests in cassocks, old Hasids in black suits and young Arabs in jeans--pass each other as they go through Damascus Gate into and out of the Old City of Jerusalem. For five years, David K. Shipler watched them as the Jerusalem Bureau Chief of The New York Times. And like many an ambitious Times overseas correspondent before him, Shipler has written a big book based upon his experiences in a foreign land. A very big book...
...Shipler, now settled in Washington after 11 years abroad which included stints in South Vietnam and Israel, sees more than just darkness in the Soviet Union...