Son of the cypresses : memories, reflections, and regrets from a political life / Meron Benvenisti ; translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta in consultation with Michael Kaufman-Lacusta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benvenisti, Meron, 1934-2020

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Sephardim.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Influence.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel--Politics and government--20th century.

Israel.

Politics and government.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.

Peace.

Israel--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Benvenisti, David.

Jews--Israel--Biography.

Jews.

Sephardim--Israel--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

"Now that I am seventy years of age, it is my prerogative to offer a summing up," says Meron Benvenisti, internationally known author and columnist, Jerusalem native, and scion of Israel's founders. Born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mother, Benvenisti has enjoyed an unusual vantage point from which to consider his homeland's conflicts and controversies. Part memoir and part political polemic, "Son of the Cypresses "threads Benvenisti's own story through that of Israel. The result is a sharply drawn eyewitness account of pre-state Jerusalem and Israel's early years. In remembering his life as an Israeli sabra, Benvenisti offers a vivid record of the historical roots of the conflict that persists today.

Contents:

A founding father

Delayed filial rebellion

Jerusalemites

"The ceremony of innocence Is drowned

"

The morning after

Separation and disengagement

Descriptions and prescriptions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780520238251

0520238257

OCLC:

71947522