On the Borderline
Publisher
:
Stock
Parution date
:
2002
EAN
:
9782234054769
Description
Son of a rabbi, Michel Warchawski left France for Israel at the age of 16 to further his Talmudic studies. He later became one of the most prominent figures of the Israeli radical left. A militant for peace since 1968, he was condemned to 20 months of prison for supporting illegal Palestinian organizations. In Sur la frontière, he recounts his exceptional story. Attached to the values of the Jewish diaspora, and inspired by the socialism without borders of the ancient Yiddish world, Warschawski also knows Israel’s reality from the inside. In this book which mingles analysis and testimony, he tells his first moments of despair, his love for Jerusalem, his indignations, friendships, fights, and his desolation in front of the rise of violence and hatred. This book is not a history book or a study on the Middle-East conflict. It is not an auto biography either. It is the passionate and fascinating tale of one man’s experience on the borders which separate States, communities and realities and which constitute the Palestinian question. The border is studied under many angles: the border between the State of Israel and the Arab world, between Israelis and Palestinians but also Jews and Israelis, religious and secular, European Jews and Jews from the Middle East. Borders which cross each other, more or less permeable, but never insurmountable.
Author
Michel Warschawski :
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