Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli

Hollander, Benjamin

ISBN 10: 0963932179 / ISBN 13: 9780963932174

Published by Berkeley: Parrhesia Press/Listening Chamber, 2004, 2004

About this Item

8vo, card covers, 137pp. First edition, 1500 copies printed. VG+: clean, bright and sound with two small spots to the lower edge, but no other flaws.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rituals of Truce and the Other Israeli
• Publisher: Berkeley: Parrhesia Press/Listening Chamber, 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963932179
• ISBN 13: 9780963932174
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica

About this title

Synopsis

Cultural Writing. A highly provocative and infinitely approachable book which confronts history with a generous act of imagination, as it presents us with a practical ethics for the present and for the future of the Israel-Palestine question.. The book's title responds to the writings of Palestinian author and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh, who has called for "rituals of truce" between Israelis and Palestinians, with the hope of finding "an other Israeli" in the process. With extraordinary nuance, sensitivity, and rare good sense, Israeli-born author Benjamin Hollander uses a collage-text approach, combining journal entries, news items, personal stories, citations, dialogues, aphorisms, poetry, real emails, virtual letters, and graphics, to arrive at two extended essays-in-fragments. Four-color cover based on Dani Karavan's "Passages," Port Bou, Spain.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Benjamin Hollander was born in Israel and emigrated to New York City in 1958, at the age of six. He has lived in San Francisco since 1978. A poet and essayist, scholar and teacher, his books include _Vigilance_ (Beyond Baroque, 2004), _Levinas and the Police, Part 1_ (Chax Press, 2001), _The Book Of Who Are Was_ (Sun & Moon, 1997), _How to Read, too_ (Leech Books, 1992), and, as editor, _Translating Tradition: Paul Celan in France_ (ACTS, 1988).