The Place I Live the People I Know
Profiles from the Eastern Mediterranean
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Beschreibung des Verlags
Everyone has a unique life story to tell. In The Place I Live The People I Know, author Lori Mendel shares stories from people she knows, gathered from Eilat in the south to Kibbutz Neot Mordecai in the north near the Syrian border.
Theres Bishara from Nazereth, Edna from Beer Sheba, Ilan from Jerusalem, Noa from Tel Aviv, Sara from Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, and many more. Some escaped the Holocaust, some are sabrasborn in Israel, some are new immigrants; Jews, Arabs, Christians, and Druze living in this extraordinary country, full of passions and contradictions.
Praise for The Place I Live The People I Know
Lori Mendels vibrant experiment in oral history helps us to understand the amazing diversity of the Jewish state.
Patrick Tyler, Author, Fortress Israel
A gold mine of memories, the drama of Israel through the stories of those who live it. Lori Mendel has performed a valuable service, collecting the life stories of dozens of people, a true cross-section of that fascinating nation - moving, real and illuminating.
Martin Fletcher, NBC News and PBS Special Correspondent and author of Walking Israel, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. New novel is The War Reporter published by St Martins Press, New York.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her debut, Mendel sketches portraits of the important people she has come to know in Israel. Most of the people Mendel profiles, ranging in age from 27 to 88, have compelling stories, such as Berliner Abe Rosenfeld, who escaped from Germany to what was then Palestine during WWII, and Erika Peitzer Miron, who survived life in the Warsaw ghetto. More recent immigrants include Americans such as Eva Shaibe Rockman, who moved because she didn't want to marry a non-Jew, and New Yorker Stanley Rubenstein, spurred to immigrate because of the upheavals in the U.S. during the 1960s and early '70s. Many came with high hopes for the Israeli state, only to be disappointed: in the words of one, "I am... apprehensive.... We have to reach a compromise with our neighbors." Yet for all the potentially fascinating narratives, and despite liberal, lively use of exclamation points, the accounts tend to read like transcripts: each participant answered a list of identical questions, and their responses were then compiled into this anthology. One wishes Mendel had followed up with in-depth interviews of at least some of the responders. Many, especially the older Israelis, have stories that deserve to be expanded. (BookLife)
