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Losing Israel / Jasmine Donahaye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donahaye, Jasmine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Donahaye, Jasmine.
- Women authors--20th century--Biography.
- Women authors.
- Kibbutzim--Biography.
- Kibbutzim.
- Donahaye, Jasmine--Family.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Forced migration--Palestine.
- Forced migration.
- Forced migration--Israel.
- Genealogy.
- Families.
- Palestine--History--1929-1948.
- Palestine.
- Israel--Genealogy.
- Israel.
- Palestine--Genealogy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 206 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bridgend, Wales : Seren, [2015]
- Summary:
- During a phone call to her mother Jasmine Donahaye stumbled upon the collusion of her kibbutz family in the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 - and earlier, in the 1930s. She set out to learn the facts behind this revelation, and her discoveries challenged everything she thought she knew about the country and her family, transforming her understanding of Israel, and of herself. In a moving and honest account that spans travel writing, nature writing and memoir, Losing Israel explores the powerful attachments people have to place and to contested national stories. Moving between Wales and Israel, and attempting to reconcile her conflicted feelings rooted in difficult family history and a love of Israel's birds, the author asks challenging questions about homeland and belonging, and the power of stories to shape a landscape. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Motherland 14
- 2 Disorientation 43
- 3 Love and longing 70
- 4 Telling tales 100
- 5 Surveillance 134
- 6 Claiming dominion 162.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam & Tracy Bernstein Collection Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1781722528
- 9781781722527
- OCLC:
- 914182857
- Publisher Number:
- 99963778265
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