DAVID N. MYERS is professor of history and director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of Re-Inventing the Jewish Past Resisting History.

"Myers demonstrates his virtuosity at intellectual history as he creates a marvelous context for us to understand this major thinker." Jewish Journal "True, today an open-door policy of repatriating Arab refugees and their families might threaten the 'Jewish' character of the state (which Rawidowicz wanted to protect). But in 1948 that was not the case, and many at that time knew it. And now, when historians such as Benny Morris have provided evidence to undermine the Israeli myth that Arabs left Palestine primarily on the advice of their leaders (Rawidowicz and others knew this myth was untrue in the early 1950s), we Jews have much to account for... We owe David Myers a debt of gratitude for giving us Simon Rawidowicz's lost voice: a voice of reason, of tradition, of morality, especially at a time when we need to be brought back to our collective senses." The Forward"

DAVID N. MYERS is professor of history and director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of Re-Inventing the Jewish Past Resisting History.

"Myers demonstrates his virtuosity at intellectual history as he creates a marvelous context for us to understand this major thinker." Jewish Journal "True, today an open-door policy of repatriating Arab refugees and their families might threaten the 'Jewish' character of the state (which Rawidowicz wanted to protect). But in 1948 that was not the case, and many at that time knew it. And now, when historians such as Benny Morris have provided evidence to undermine the Israeli myth that Arabs left Palestine primarily on the advice of their leaders (Rawidowicz and others knew this myth was untrue in the early 1950s), we Jews have much to account for... We owe David Myers a debt of gratitude for giving us Simon Rawidowicz's lost voice: a voice of reason, of tradition, of morality, especially at a time when we need to be brought back to our collective senses." The Forward"

DAVID N. MYERS is professor of history and director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of Re-Inventing the Jewish Past Resisting History.

"Myers demonstrates his virtuosity at intellectual history as he creates a marvelous context for us to understand this major thinker." Jewish Journal "True, today an open-door policy of repatriating Arab refugees and their families might threaten the 'Jewish' character of the state (which Rawidowicz wanted to protect). But in 1948 that was not the case, and many at that time knew it. And now, when historians such as Benny Morris have provided evidence to undermine the Israeli myth that Arabs left Palestine primarily on the advice of their leaders (Rawidowicz and others knew this myth was untrue in the early 1950s), we Jews have much to account for... We owe David Myers a debt of gratitude for giving us Simon Rawidowicz's lost voice: a voice of reason, of tradition, of morality, especially at a time when we need to be brought back to our collective senses." The Forward"