EAN: 9780807002445

IN JERUSALEM - LIS HARRIS KARTONIERT (TB)

An entirely fresh take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that examines the life-shaping
reverberations of wars and ongoing tensions upon the everyday lives of families in Jerusalem.
An American  secular  diasporic Jew  Lis Harris grew up with the knowledge of the historical
wrongs done to Jews. In adulthood  she developed a growing awareness of the wrongs they in turn
had done to the Palestinian people. This gave her an intense desire to understand how the
Israelis history led them to where they are now. However  she found that top-down political
accounts and insider assessments made the people most affected seem like chess pieces. What she
wanted was to register the effects of the country s seemingly never-ending conflict on the
lives of successive generations. Shuttling back and forth over ten years between East and West
Jerusalem  Harris learned about the lives of two families: the Israeli Pinczowers Ezrahis and
the Palestinian Abuleils. She came to know members of each family young and old  religious and
secular  male and female. As they shared their histories with her  she looked at how each
family survived the losses and dislocations that defined their lives  how  in a region where
war and its threat were part of the very air they breathed  they gave children hope for their
future  and how the adults understanding of the conflict evolved over time. Combining a decade
of historical research with political analysis  Harris creates a living portrait of one of the
most complicated and controversial conflicts of our time.

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