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Informationen zum Autor Meron Benvenisti was deputy mayor of Jerusalem from 1971 to 1978. He was a columnist for Haaretz! Israel's largest newspaper! and is the author of numerous books including Intimate Enemies (UC Press! 1995)! City of Stone (UC Press! 1996)! and Sacred Landscape (UC Press! 2000). Klappentext "Whether Benvenisti takes up the issues of Jerusalem or the Oslo Agreements, whether people believe him to be marginal, heretical, or a contradictory critic of Israeli and Palestinian societies and politics, there is real force in his arguments and interpretations. His writing is so compelling and disturbing that his positions must be taken seriously."—Richard D. Hecht, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara "Wading into the white-hot cauldron of Israeli-Palestinian cultural politics, the independent-minded Benvenisti crowns his long career as politician, author, and scholar-journalist with this fearless, highly personal history of and engagement with his nation's dreams and trials. Part autobiography, part painful cultural history, part polemical argument with a host of equally strong-willed countrymen and intellectuals, Jerusalem's former deputy mayor provides readers with one veteran insider's search for an ethical place to stand in what may be the most intractable, complex and dangerous dilemma of our times. This book is an impossibly lonely, courageous effort to make the basic case to both his own ancestors and fellow Israelis that only surrender of the demand for full sovereignty for both Jews and Palestinians in favor of some yet-to-be-created shared polity will save his beloved land of Israeli cypresses and Palestinian orchards. A stunningly brave and urgent achievement, and an intensely rewarding experience for all readers concerned about the fate of the Middle East."—Peter Nabokov, author of A Forest of Time and Where the Lightening Strikes Zusammenfassung Meron Benvenisti, internationally known author and columnist, Jerusalem native, and scion of Israel's founders, was born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mother. Part memoir and part political polemic, this title combines Benvenisti's own story through the story of Israel, presenting an account of pre-state Jerusalem. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A Founding Father 2. Delayed Filial Rebellion 3. Jerusalemites 4. "The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned..." 5. The Morning After 6. Separation and Disengagement 7. Descriptions and Prescriptions Epilogues Notes Index ...
