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Bezig met laden... Home to Stay: One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel (editie 2003)door Daniel Gordis (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkIf a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State door Daniel Gordis
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A Jewish American family goes to Israel for a yearlong visit and decides to stay, just as Israeli and Palestinian relations begin to deteriorate. Will the family stay? Should they stay? They must; "it is our home." Recommended. ( ) The author, a Conservative Jew from the United States, was offered a fellowship from an Israeli university for a year and moved from Los Angeles to Jerusalem with his wife and three kids back in 1998. They found it so inspirational to live in “a country made specially for them… where the story is about them, and they are the new chapter,” that when Gordis was offered a permanent position at the year’s end, they decided to stay there despite the dangers and to apply for the Israeli citizenship. I'm generally interested in books about life in different places, especially books written by someone who actually lives, works and raises a family in the country he’s describing, as opposed to just visiting, and I found Gordis’s book particularly valuable since, due to the nature of his job and his volunteer activities, he gets to meet all sorts of different people and, despite the difficult situation there, almost invariably shows tolerance, understanding and even sympathy for other people's perspectives. Personally, I also found this book very well-written. It describes the Gordises’ experience of living in Israel till the end of 2002. Daniel Gordis later wrote a sequel Coming Together, Coming Apart, which I enjoyed as well. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, during which time Daniel would be a Fellow at the Mandel Institute in Jerusalem. This was a euphoric time in Israel. The economy was booming, and peace seemed virtually guaranteed. A few months into their stay, Gordis and his wife decided to remain in Israel permanently, confident that their children would be among the first generation of Israelis to grow up in peace. Immediately after arriving in Israel, Daniel had started sending out e-mails about his and his family's life to friends and family abroad. These missives--passionate, thoughtful, beautifully written, and informative--began reaching a much broader readership than he'd ever envisioned, eventually being excerpted in The New York Times Magazine to much acclaim. An edited and finely crafted collection of his original e-mails, If a Place Can Make You Cry is a first-person, immediate account of Israel's post-Oslo meltdown that cuts through the rhetoric and stridency of most dispatches from that country or from the international media. Above all, Gordis tells the story of a family that must cope with the sudden realization that they took their children from a serene and secure neighborhood in Los Angeles to an Israel not at peace but mired in war. This is the chronicle of a loss of innocence--the innocence of Daniel and his wife, and of their children. Ultimately, through Gordis's eyes, Israel, with all its beauty, madness, violence, and history, comes to life in a way we've never quite seen before. Daniel Gordis captures as no one has the years leading up to what every Israeli dreaded: on April 1, 2002, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Israel was at war. After an almost endless cycle of suicide bombings and harsh retaliation, any remaining chance for peace had seemingly died. If a Place Can Make You Cry is the story of a time in which peace gave way to war, when childhood innocence evaporated in the heat of hatred, when it became difficult even to hope. Like countless other Israeli parents, Gordis and his wife struggled to make their children's lives manageable and meaningful, despite it all. This is a book about what their children gained, what they lost, and how, in the midst of everything, a whole family learned time and again what really matters. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)956.94History and Geography Asia Middle East The Levant Israel and PalestineLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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