My Promised Land

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• Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the Natan Book Award • • National Jewish Book Award Winner: The Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award for History • • A New York Times Notable Book •
• Named one of the best books of the year by The Economist • * ----
Drawing on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story. My Promised Land is a. riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As Ari Shavit examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, he asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing. My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and... Tovább

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• Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the Natan Book Award • • National Jewish Book Award Winner: The Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award for History • • A New York Times Notable Book •
• Named one of the best books of the year by The Economist • * ----
Drawing on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story. My Promised Land is a. riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As Ari Shavit examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, he asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing. My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today's global political landscape.
"[Shavit's] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East." —Simon Schama, Financial Times
"Important and powerful the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read." — Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review
"Spellbinding Shavit's prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear." —The Economist
"One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years." -The Wall Street Journal
"Reads like a love story and a thriller at once." -Dwight Garner, TheNew York Times
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