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My Promised Land
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- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
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Resumen del Editor
New York Times best seller
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and The Economist
Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today.
Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family's story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension.
We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who, in 1897, visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country.
As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.
Praise for My Promised Land
“This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit’s] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total...that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.” (Simon Schama, Financial Times)
“[A] must-read book.” (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times)
“Important and powerful...the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.” (Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review)
“Spellbinding...Shavit’s prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.” (The Economist)
“One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years.” (The Wall Street Journal)
Reseñas de la Crítica
“Shavit's provocative book avoids the clichés typical of some works about the Middle East, and the audio version benefits from Paul Boehmer's superb presentation.” (AudioFile Magazine)
“The most extraordinary book that I’ve read on [Israel] since Amos Elon’s book called The Israelis, and that was published in the late sixties.” (David Remnick)
“Shavit is a master storyteller. [His] retelling of history jars us out of our familiar retrospections, reminds us (and we do need reminders) that there are historical reasons why Israel is a country on the edge.... Required reading for both the left and the right.” (The Jewish Week)
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- De Schaq en 04-01-17
De: Daniel Gordis
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Israel and Palestine, 2019 Edition
- The Complete History
- De: Ian Carroll
- Narrado por: Alastair Cameron
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Israel and Palestine: The Complete History seeks to explain the overall story of Israeli and Palestinian tensions and divisions in the region. Indeed, without properly understanding the full history of the area, it is impossible to understand the current situation. In this book, author Ian Carroll takes the listener back to the very beginning of the conflict some 4,000 years ago, then moves through the major events of the Middle Ages and 20th century, and brings us right up to the present day, documenting the significant events that have happened along the way.
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One sides, telling half of the truth
- De Ori en 05-27-21
De: Ian Carroll
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Thomas L. Friedman
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
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In From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region.
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- De Theodore en 03-31-14
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- De: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members - mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age.
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- De K en 05-24-21
De: Rashid Khalidi
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
- De: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Narrado por: Yossi Klein Halevi
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.
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Israel 101 - but for Jews
- De GoingGoingGone... en 06-13-18
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Impossible Takes Longer
- 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams?
- De: Daniel Gordis
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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In 1948, Israel’s founders sought a “national home for the Jewish people,” where Jewish life would be transformed. The state they ultimately made, says Daniel Gordis, is a place of extraordinary success and maddening disappointment, a story of both unprecedented human triumph and great suffering. When it marked its seventy-fifth anniversary, Israel was in the throes of its most dangerous internal rupture ever. Then it was attacked from the outside and plunged into existential uncertainty.
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Has Israel fulfilled its dream?
- De Nico Vela en 09-22-23
De: Daniel Gordis
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Israel
- A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
- De: Daniel Gordis
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 16 h y 19 m
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Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world's attention, aroused its imagination, and, lately, been the object of its opprobrium. Why does such a small country speak to so many global concerns? More pressingly: Why does Israel make the decisions it does? And what lies in its future? We cannot answer these questions until we understand Israel's people and the questions and conflicts, the hopes and desires, that have animated their conversations and actions.
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Excellent, mildly but honestly biased, terrible narration
- De Schaq en 04-01-17
De: Daniel Gordis
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Israel and Palestine, 2019 Edition
- The Complete History
- De: Ian Carroll
- Narrado por: Alastair Cameron
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Israel and Palestine: The Complete History seeks to explain the overall story of Israeli and Palestinian tensions and divisions in the region. Indeed, without properly understanding the full history of the area, it is impossible to understand the current situation. In this book, author Ian Carroll takes the listener back to the very beginning of the conflict some 4,000 years ago, then moves through the major events of the Middle Ages and 20th century, and brings us right up to the present day, documenting the significant events that have happened along the way.
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One sides, telling half of the truth
- De Ori en 05-27-21
De: Ian Carroll
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Thomas L. Friedman
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In From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas L. Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, has drawn on his decade in the Middle East to produce the most trenchant, vivid, and thought-provoking book yet on the region.
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- De Theodore en 03-31-14
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- De: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members - mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age.
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- De K en 05-24-21
De: Rashid Khalidi
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 25 h y 41 m
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One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his 10 years of experience reporting from Lebanon and Israel to write this now-classic work of journalism.
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Games
- De Gina Samci en 07-10-24
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Israel
- A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
- De: Noa Tishby
- Narrado por: Noa Tishby
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Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot-button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But while everyone seems to have a strong opinion about Israel, how many people actually know the facts? Here to fill in the information gap is Israeli American Noa Tishby.
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I hope this book will help
- De Wayne en 05-08-21
De: Noa Tishby
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Can We Talk About Israel?
- A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
- De: Daniel Sokatch
- Narrado por: Daniel Sokatch
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'Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?' This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis as the head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews. Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, grappling with a century-long struggle between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims.
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Not completely sincere in its promise
- De Buretto en 10-30-21
De: Daniel Sokatch
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The Genius of Israel
- The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
- De: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrado por: Dan Senor
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Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking? How can it be that Israel, according to a United Nations ranking, is the fourth happiest nation in the world? Why do Israelis tend to look to the future with hope, optimism, and purpose while the rest of the West struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, teen depression, and social decline?
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The richness of the Israeli culture and the brilliance of the IDF.
- De Jandee Camozzi en 12-06-23
De: Dan Senor, y otros
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Enemies and Neighbors
- Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
- De: Ian Black
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 4 m
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In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today. Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral histories to his own vivid on-the-ground reporting - to recreate the major milestones in the most polarizing conflict of the modern age from both sides.
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- De Dan Harris en 07-08-20
De: Ian Black
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The Thirty-Year Genocide
- Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924
- De: Benny Morris, Dror Ze'evi, Claire Bloom
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
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Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924 the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been reduced to two percent. Most historians have treated these waves as distinct, isolated events, and successive Turkish governments presented them as an unfortunate sequence of accidents. This is the first account to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia's Christian population.
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Pay Close Attention to This Stunning Achievement
- De J.Brock en 06-25-20
De: Benny Morris, y otros
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We Are Not One
- A History of America’s Fight Over Israel
- De: Eric Alterman
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 19 h y 32 m
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Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. But despite these arguments' significance to American politics, American Jewish life, and to Israel itself, no one has ever systematically examined their history and explained why they matter. In We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins.
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- De C. C. Kissinger en 03-05-24
De: Eric Alterman
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Six Days of War
- June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- De: Michael B. Oren
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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In Israel and the West, it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War or, simply, as "the Setback". Never has a conflict so short, unforeseen, and largely unwanted by both sides so transformed the world. The Yom Kippur War, the war in Lebanon, the Camp David accords, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the intifada, and the rise of Palestinian terror are all part of the outcome of those six days.
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Great overview of Middle East troubles
- De Patrick Marstall en 07-23-06
De: Michael B. Oren
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Parting the Waters
- America in the King Years 1954-63
- De: Taylor Branch
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 45 h y 10 m
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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.
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Excellent
- De Judith Princz en 05-15-19
De: Taylor Branch
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The Way to the Spring
- Life and Death in Palestine
- De: Ben Ehrenreich
- Narrado por: Ben Ehrenreich
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life. Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages. Along the way he has written major stories for American outlets, including a remarkable New York Times Magazine cover story. Now comes the powerful new work that has always been his ultimate goal, The Way to the Spring.
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One-sided version of 'the truth'
- De Mark en 01-01-18
De: Ben Ehrenreich
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The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine
- From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace
- De: Michael Scott-Baumann
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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The ongoing struggle between Israel and Palestine is one of the most bitter conflicts in history, with profound global consequences. In this book, Middle East expert Michael Scott-Baumann succinctly describes its origins and charts its evolution from civil war to the present day. Each chapter offers a lucid explanation of the politics and ends with personal testimony from Palestinians and Israelis whose lives have been impacted by the dispute.
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Great introduction to millennial of conflict
- De Cyndi en 11-26-23
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Reclaiming Israel’s History
- Roots, Rights, and the Struggle for Peace
- De: David Brog
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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There was a time when Israel could do no wrong in America's eyes. That time is long past, and justly so - no nation is absolutely perfect, particularly not one that is engaged in a conflict as long as the Arab-Israeli conflict. But the myth of the perfect Israel has been supplanted by a far more deleterious myth: the myth of the evil Israel. This new myth has so pervaded contemporary culture that the history of Israel - as well documented as it is - has been recast and retold to fit a false narrative of Israel as violent occupier.
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- De Mendy en 08-12-18
De: David Brog
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre My Promised Land
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Brilliantly Captured Content - No Words Are Wasted
What did you love best about My Promised Land?
This book shares comprehensive research, opinion and facts, weaving together perspectives from left wing views, right wing views and everything in between. Ari leaves out the sugar coating. It provides raw truths on past, present and the unknown. The book does not dance around white elephants on conflict, Israelis, Iranian global nuclear threat, Palestinians, politics, economy and international opinions. After each chapter, I was armed with information I was not ready to deal with. Brilliantly captured content.
What was one of the most memorable moments of My Promised Land?
Access to the people he interviews for the book. He writes to uncover facts, truths and is not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions and he actually reports his findings. In every chapter I am shocked on what he shares. Ari's journalist gift, peacenik beginnings, birthplace and his family background, puts him in a unique position to convey such powerful inside stories to the reader. His questioning comes from a deep place of understanding, frustration, fear and triumph.
What about Paul Boehmer’s performance did you like?
Just loved his voice. The perfect cast. Sample audio does not do it justice. Paul begins the chapters speaking fast and as the depth of the stories progress, there is sarcasm, despair and delight in his voice.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Yes, I was almost in tears listening to the harsh beginnings, suffering and despair. Towards the end, my heart fell into my stomach. The ending leaves you in a pensive thought, I wanted at least one more chapter.
Any additional comments?
He explains brilliantly how and why the middle east conflict and life is complex and where the hope for peace stands. Forget about Self Help books - listen to this and you will learn about decades of hope, anguish, luck, faith and courage from both Israelis and Palestinians.
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- Edgar
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Comprehensive and touching
The book covers a wide span of the country's history, leveraging personal stories to make history more real.
It nicely covers several aspects of history providing different points of view, enabling the reader to develop an own opinion.
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- Mindy
- 03-20-14
Terrific
What does Paul Boehmer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Mr. Boehmer read the book as if he wrote it. He spoke with a level of passion and urgency this book truly deserves.
Any additional comments?
What a terrific book. Ari Shavit doesn't just tell a factual story about Israel's history and the Arab-Israeli crisis, he tells us an emotional story through his and his family's eyes, the eyes of Arabs, holocaust survivors, and young Jewish Israelis, the latter of which may be oblivious to the true tenuousness of their modern and safe lifestyle. I went into this book with animosity toward Israel's treatment of neighboring Palestinians, and though my disdain remains, I did also leave with a great deal more compassion, understanding and concern for Israel's Jews.
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- 01-08-15
A Must Read For Anyone Fascinated by the Miracle o
If you could sum up My Promised Land in three words, what would they be?
miracle
challenging
dynamic
Who was your favorite character and why?
Ari Shavit, the author, who pulls together the story of modern Israel from a multidimensional perspective and leaves the reader with a sense of excitement, fascination and confidence.
What does Paul Boehmer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Paul Boehmer reads the story with enthusiasm, sincerity and just the right intonations.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Yes, when author Shavit brings all the varied currents he has elucidated, together, revealing the incredible miracle of modern day Israel and Israelis, he brought tears of admiration and incredible pride, to my eyes.
Any additional comments?
I wish that everyone would read this wonderful book, and especially for anyone who is Jewish , Ari Shavit writes with such depth and intelligence, making sense of a highly complex and challenging situation, and he does so in an interesting and easily readable way. At times his writing is sheer poetry. If you want to gain a real insight into the Israeli psyche, you can do no better than to read Ari Shavit's book: Israel, The Promise.
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- Judy Boros
- 05-29-24
Compelling and deeply real
With his gorgeous prose, Shavit captures the tragic, tumultuous, vibrant story of a nation on the edge, the story of a people intent on clutching life from death. It’s a story whose end we do not yet know, especially now as Israel faces existential decisions on what price it will pay for nationhood. Either Israel ends the occupation or the occupation will end Israel, Shavit writes. Will the Jewish state live by its moral compass or allow nationalism, and militarism to destroy its soul as it wages a war on the Palestinian people. It is a question Shavit is not afraid to ask. Neither should any Israeli or Jew in the diaspora.
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- Jodie Futornick
- 07-22-14
Horrible narration
What made the experience of listening to My Promised Land the most enjoyable?
The book is great, but the narration was painful. As others have said, I found the faux-Israeli accent distracting and a bit insulting. I won't say it ruined the book for me, but it did make it very difficult to get through.
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- MVV
- 02-02-16
personal but too polemic
This is very well read story with a rather one-sided view of the early Palestine
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- Robert Ritter
- 08-28-21
Godless Book
it is ironic that a book about the Promised Land manages to ignore the "promise." The author boasts about secularism and all but denies God has any part in the story. Just because the author wrote God out his book doesn't mean God doesn't will be written out of the story. Perhaps his mistake is what threatens Israel's future most of all and explains Tisha B'Av.
The author explains Israel's atrocities well enough. This book may as well be a PR treasure chest for anti-Zionnist seeking facts and quotes to make their case against Israel. But it failed to explain what makes Israel a great nation. And in the end of the story the author had little to pin Israel's ultimate security on.
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- Dougieb
- 07-01-18
in-depth history thoroughly researched
outstanding historical perspective on the state of Israel albutt from a slightly left position. worth the read no matter what side you're on.
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- Debbie
- 05-09-16
My promised land
Very informative historical work
Needed some editing especially last portions
Was very moving in many sections
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