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This year in Jerusalem / by Mordechai Richler.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS107.5 .R54 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israel--Description and travel.
- Israel.
- Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001--Travel--Israel.
- Richler, Mordecai.
- Richler, Mordecai, 1931-2001.
- Travel.
- National characteristics, Israeli.
- Novelists, Canadian--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, Canadian.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1994.
- Summary:
- Part memoir, part history, part political commentary - and all Richler - This Year in Jerusalem is a personal, passionate, and quirkily comic examination of the idea of Israel-as-homeland: for Jews, for Palestinians, and, not least, for the author himself. Richler re-creates the Montreal of his adolescence - the local Zionist youth organization functioning as an escape from the zealous Hasidism of his grandfathers; the idea of emigration to Israel growing into a shimmering dream for himself and his friends. And, going to Israel to look up his old pals from St. Urbain Street, he shows us what happened to those who actually did "make aliyah" - who settled in the cities and on the kibbutzim, survived the turmoils of war, and are faced today with the opportunities and dangers of peace with the Palestinians. He shows us, as well, the course of his own migration - away from Zionism and through the maze of his own sense of Judaism until he rediscovers his true homeland: "I owe as much to the thin gruel of my Canadian experience as I do to my Jewish provenance". Woven through his story are his fond (and not so fond) recollections of his family, his encounters in today's Israel with the kids he grew up with in Montreal a million years ago, and his most mordant observations on the state of the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Witty, intelligent, well reasoned, and across-the-board provocative, here is Mordecai Richler at his inimitable - and controversial - best.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0679436103 :
- OCLC:
- 30363604
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