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Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
David Shulman
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Description for Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
Hardcover. For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The author takes the reader into the heart of the conflict. He, then, attempts to discover how his beloved Israel went wrong - and how, through acts of compassionate disobedience, it might be brought back. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTJ; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 432.
For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, those images leave us at a loss: from our vantage at home, it's hard for us to imagine the struggles of those living in the midst of the fighting. Now, American-born Israeli David Shulman takes us right into the heart of the conflict with "Dark Hope", an eye-opening chronicle of his work as a member of the peace group Ta'ayush, which takes its name from the Arabic for "living together." Though Shulman never denies the ... Read more
For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, those images leave us at a loss: from our vantage at home, it's hard for us to imagine the struggles of those living in the midst of the fighting. Now, American-born Israeli David Shulman takes us right into the heart of the conflict with "Dark Hope", an eye-opening chronicle of his work as a member of the peace group Ta'ayush, which takes its name from the Arabic for "living together." Though Shulman never denies the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226755748
SKU
V9780226755748
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About David Shulman
David Shulman is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was born in Iowa but moved to Israel in 1967 at age eighteen. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 1987, Shulman is the author or coauthor of nineteen books, including The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and ... Read more
Reviews for Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
"David Shulman's book, Dark Hope, is one of the most fascinating and moving accounts of Israeli-Palestinian attempts to help, indeed to save, human beings suffering under the burden of occupation and terror. Anyone who is pained and troubled by what is happening in the Holy Land should read this human document, which indeed offers a certain dark hope." - A. ... Read more