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The thinking heart : essays on Israel and Palestine / David Grossman ; essays selected by Eva Cossee and Christoph Buchwald ; translated by Jessica Cohen.
Van Pelt Library DS119.76 .G775 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grossman, David, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essasys. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Israel-Hamas War, 2023-.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--History--21st century.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Israel--Foreign relations--Palestine.
- Israel.
- Palestine--Foreign relations--Israel.
- Palestine.
- Israel--Politics and government--21st century.
- Middle East--Social conditions--21st century.
- Middle East.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--History.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Political aspects.
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Psychological aspects.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Hebrew.
- Summary:
- "A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a day marking the biggest loss of Jewish life in this century, he retreated inwards to ask himself difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation: How could this massacre have happened? How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, fail to protect its citizens? And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it their last hope of a two-state solution? In eleven essays David Grossman traces the years leading up to that day and the ensuing war through a string of failures by a morally bankrupt party clinging to power. He documents the struggle being fought on both sides between those committed to conflict, and the many who simply want to live in peace. Ultimately, Grossman arrives at the most important question of all: Will there ever be a lasting peace in the region?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: who will we be when we rise from the ashes? (10 October 2023)
- Nevertherless (22 May 2021)
- Israel in chaos (30 December 2022)
- Dictatorship threatens Israel (25 March 2023)
- What is a Jewish state? (26 April 2023)
- The march on Jerusalem (25 July 2023)
- The tightrope walker look down (29 August 2023)
- Writer in an occupying country (15 July 2017)
- Equality is not a prize (4 August 2018)
- The thinking heart (29 November 2022)
- After the war (1 March 2024)
- Suddenly a cry flew (Tel Aviv, 24 July 2024).
- Notes:
- "On Israel and Palestine" -- Cover.
- ISBN:
- 9798217007059
- OCLC:
- 1432227906
- Publisher Number:
- 90100951772
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