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<p><b>THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES,</b> the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities—in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to genocide, from assassination to massacre, violence usually emerges from inside the fold. You have more to fear from a spouse, an ex-spouse, or a coworker than you do from someone you don’t know.</p> <p>In this brilliant polemic, Russell Jacoby argues that violence erupts most often, and most savagely, between those of us most closely related. An Indian nationalist assassinated Mohandas Gandhi, “the father” of India. An Egyptian Muslim assassinated Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. An Israeli Jew assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister and similarly a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Genocide most often involves kindred groups. The German Christians of the 1930s were so closely intertwined with German Jews that a yellow star was required to tell the groups apart. Serbs and Muslims in Bosnia, like the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, are often indistinguishable even to one another.</p> <p>This idea contradicts both common sense an
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- Author
- RUSSELL JACOBY
- Publisher
- New York: Free Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439100240
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Psychology, Fiction, Sociology
- Rating
- 3.05 / 5 (34 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14