In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family Harris Lis
In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family Harris Lis An entirely fresh take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that examines the life-shaping reverberations of…
Specifikacia In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family Harris Lis
In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family Harris Lis
An entirely fresh take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that examines the life-shaping reverberations of wars and ongoing tensions upon the everyday lives of families in Jerusalem.An American, secular, diasporic Jew, Lis Harris grew up with the knowledge of the historical wrongs done to Jews. This gave her an intense desire to understand how the Israelis' history led them to where they are now. In adulthood, she developed a growing awareness of the wrongs they in turn had done to the Palestinian people.
What she wanted was to register the effects of the country's seemingly never-ending conflict on the lives of successive generations.Shuttling back and forth over ten years between East and West Jerusalem, Harris learned about the lives of However, she found that top-down political accounts and insider assessments made the people most affected seem like chess pieces.