HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Harris, Lis, author.
Subjects
Pinczower family.
Ezrahi family.
Abuleil family.
Jews -- Jerusalem -- Biography.
Palestinian Arabs -- Jerusalem -- Biography.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Jerusalem -- Social conditions.
West Bank -- Social conditions.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Harris, Lis, author.
by title:
In Jerusalem : three...
MARC Display
In Jerusalem : three generations of an Israeli family and a Palestinian family / Lis Harris.
by
Harris, Lis, author.
Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
Subjects
Pinczower family.
Ezrahi family.
Abuleil family.
Jews -- Jerusalem -- Biography.
Palestinian Arabs -- Jerusalem -- Biography.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Jerusalem -- Social conditions.
West Bank -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780807029688 (hardcover) :
0807029688 (hardcover) :
Description:
xxxi, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Requests:
0
Summary:
"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. A secular, diaspora 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. It 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 lives of those 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 got to know 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. Combined with a decade of historical research and political analysis, Harris creates a living portrait of one of the most complicated and controversial conflicts of our time"--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
956.9442 Ha
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kihei Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
956.9442 Ha
Katz Collection
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
956.9442 Ha
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.