Author: Arthur Davison FickePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Man on the Hilltop
Author: Arthur Davison FickePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Hilltop
Author: Assaf GavronPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476760454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Mordantly funny and deeply moving, this award-winning novel about life in a West Bank settlement has been hailed as “brilliant” (The New York Times Book Review) and “The Great Israeli Novel [in which] Gavron stakes his claim to be Israel’s Jonathan Franzen” (Tablet). On a rocky hilltop stands Ma’aleh Hermesh C, a fledgling outpost of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. According to government records it doesn’t exist; according to the military it must be defended. On this contested land, Othniel Assis—under the wary gaze of the Palestinians in the neighboring village—lives on his farm with his ever-expanding family. As Othniel cheerfully manipulates government agencies, more settlers arrive, and a hodge-podge of shipping containers and mobile homes takes root. One steadfast resident is Gabi Kupper, a former kibbutz dweller who savors the delicate routines of life on the settlement. When Gabi’s prodigal brother, Roni, arrives penniless on his doorstep with a bizarre plan to sell the “artisanal” olive oil from the Palestinian village to Tel Aviv yuppies, Gabi worries his life won’t stay quiet for long. Then a nosy American journalist stumbles into Ma’aleh Hermesh C, and Gabi’s worst fears are confirmed. The settlement becomes the focus of an international diplomatic scandal, facing its greatest threat yet. This “indispensable novel” (The Wall Street Journal) skewers the complex, often absurd reality of life in Israel. Grappling with one of the most charged geo-political issues of our time, “Gavron’s story gains a foothold in our hearts and minds and stubbornly refuses to leave” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
City on a Hilltop
Author: Sara Yael HirschhornPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674979176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Since 1967, more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the territories captured by the State of Israel during the Six Day War. Comprising 15 percent of the settler population today, these immigrants have established major communities, transformed domestic politics and international relations, and committed shocking acts of terrorism. They demand attention in both Israel and the United States, but little is known about who they are and why they chose to leave America to live at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this deeply researched, engaging work, Sara Yael Hirschhorn unsettles stereotypes, showing that the 1960s generation who moved to the occupied territories were not messianic zealots or right-wing extremists but idealists engaged in liberal causes. They did not abandon their progressive heritage when they crossed the Green Line. Rather, they saw a historic opportunity to create new communities to serve as a beacon—a “city on a hilltop”—to Jews across the globe. This pioneering vision was realized in their ventures at Yamit in the Sinai and Efrat and Tekoa in the West Bank. Later, the movement mobilized the rhetoric of civil rights to rebrand itself, especially in the wake of the 1994 Hebron massacre perpetrated by Baruch Goldstein, one of their own. On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 war, Hirschhorn illuminates the changing face of the settlements and the clash between liberal values and political realities at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Way Out
Author: Emerson HoughPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752399295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Way Out by Emerson Hough
The Michigan Chimes
Author: The Review of Reviews
Author: William Thomas SteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Hodder & Stoughton's sixpenny novels. No.6 448
Author: Hodder and Stoughton, ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1786
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Author: