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"When people tell me about
how much they like these
books, I understand," he says.
"These novels make readers
—Jewish readers, obviously—
feel that the Arabs are all
wrong, and we're all right—
and there's nothing in be-
tween. It's an easy way to
view things, but it imprisons
us in one place. Where can we
possibly go with this kind of
attitude?"
Curiously, Kaplan says,
Leon Uris has played a posi-
tive role for Soviet Jews. "I've
talked over and over again to
Soviet Jews who've said they
read SAMIZDAT versions of
Exodus published under-
ground; what they said to me
is how much the book meant
to them, how it changed their
lives."
Kaplan expresses his belief
in the impact of fiction in his
teaching, as well as _his
writing. "For six years now, I
have been teaching a course
at UCLA in Arabic and
Israeli fiction in English
translation. The idea is to get
Jewish and Arab students
together, not to argue politics,
but to read each other's fic-
tion. Instead of arguing
about who did what to whom,
we read the stories to get a
feel of how people feel.'
The gap, he says, is a huge
one. "I've had a lot of Jewish
students who come to me
after the class is over and tell
me they've never thought of
an Arab as a person before;
their conception of an Arab is 1 ,
basically as a terrorist. The
Arab students tell me they've
always thought of Jews as
racists. Both sides try to
delegitimize the other; you
never think of the other side
as a people who have families,
who have feelings. The litera-
ture helps them cross this
bridge; when they do, they are
fascinated.
"What I want is for my
Arab students to understand
what it's like to be an Israeli
living on the Northern border,
and having to train their
kindergarten kids how to get
into the shelter fast. And I
want my Israeli students to
know what it feels like to live
in a refugee camp when the
planes come over. It doesn't
matter who bombed whom
first; to a mother who loses a
child, this question is irrele-
vant. In the context of the
classroom, it has been very
successful."
So successful, in fact, that
Kaplan's Middle East litera-
ture classes have been
UCLA's equivalent of a best-
seller. After six years, he is
still playing to full class-
rooms.
Kaplan attempted much
the same trick—on a vastly
larger scale—with Bullets of
Palestine. "I wanted my
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