The Slopes Of Lebanon

Informationen zum Autor AMOS OZ (1939–2018) was born in Jerusalem. He was the recipient of the Prix Femina, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Primo Levi Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award, among other international honors. His work, including A Tale of Love and Darkness and In the Land of Israel , has been translated into forty-four languages.  Klappentext As well as being one of Israel's preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz's cogent views on Israel's offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more. Zusammenfassung As well as being one of Israel’s preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz’s cogent views on Israel’s offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more.

Product details

• Authors: Maurie Goldberg-Bartura, Amos Oz
• Assisted by: Maurie Goldberg-Bartura (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2012
• EAN: 9780547636924
• ISBN: 978-0-547-63692-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Houghton Mifflin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Anthropology, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Population and Demography, Urban communities, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Historical Geography, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY: WORLD, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / Urban, HISTORY: Middle East / Israel & Palestine, HISTORY: Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Jewish Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology / General, HISTORY: Historical Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Demography