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Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak And Promise in Israel

Daniel Gordis

Synopsis:

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can seem intractable and incomprehensible, with progress impossible. It takes a writer of unparalleled sympathy, creativity, and hope–a writer like Daniel Gordis–to produce a narrative that lays the complex problems bare and underscores the toll the conflict takes on every human being it touches.

In 2005, two disengagements loomed large for Gordis, who had moved to Israel with his family a few years ago. The first was Israel’s August pullout from the Gaza strip and eviction of the Jewish settlers it could no longer protect. The second separation was a more personal one: his daughter was drafted. With his children marching willingly into a future potentially devoid of peace, Gordis peers deeply into the soul of a country where the more people appear bound together, the more completely they’re torn apart.

Dr. Daniel Gordis (Jerusalem, Israel) is Vice President of the Mandel Foundation in Israel. He is the author of If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State (1-4000-4613-0), published in paperback under the title Home to Stay: One American Family’s Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel (1-4000-4959-8).

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2009, Softcover - 2003, Softcover - 2003, Hardcover - 2002, Softcover - 2000, Hardcover - 1999, Softcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1995