Lis Harris
Autor de Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family
Sobre El Autor
Lis Harris was a staff writer at the New Yorker from 1970 to 1995. She is the chair of the Writing Program in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. In addition to innumerable articles, reviews, and commentaries, she is the author of Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family (a New York mostrar más Times Notable Book of the Year), Rules of Engagement: Four American Marriages, and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze. mostrar menos
Obras de Lis Harris
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Harris, Lis
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-02-12
- Género
- female
- Educación
- Bennington College
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 383
- Popularidad
- #63,101
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
The backgrounds of the two families are very different. The Jewish family has members who were involved directly or indirectly in the Holocaust. They live in a nice area in Jerusalem. They are Chabad Orthodox do not represent the majority of Israelis, who are more secular.
The Palestinian family has members who left their homes in 1949 after the borders of Israel were determined and it became a state. It was immediately attacked by neighboring Arab/Muslim countries trying to destroy it. While many Palestinians remained, about 700,000 left for various reasons including being told by their leaders to get out of the way until the war was over and then they could go back. After Israel won the war, that was not possible. The Arabs remained became Israeli citizens.
Harris does not mention the 875,000 Jews were evicted from their ancestral homes in Arab countries after 1949. They fled with what they could carry, having to lose most, or all their assets in the process. None of them, like the 95 million refugees worldwide since World War II, are still considered refugees. She does not talk about the Jews from Arab countries.
There is no doubt the Palestinians have suffered since then. IN JERUSALEM talks about actions taken by Jews and Israeli government that proved harmful to Palestinians. The Palestinians, and the other hand, are always portrayed as a victims.
However, when relating some of their problems, she does not tell the reasons for the changes. For example, the dividing wall between east and west Jerusalem and the checkpoints were installed following multiple attacks by Palestinian groups and individuals into Israel from the West Bank. Since they were installed, the number of deaths and injuries from these attacks has been reduced dramatically.
Before 1949 there was a large Jewish population in East Jerusalem. Hadassah Hospital, Hebrew University, government, and religious sites. were located there. She doesn’t write about how the Palestinians, under Jordan control, took them over after that war ended. When Israel was able to return in 1967, they discovered synagogues have been used as barns, tombstones removed to pave roads, etc. Harris does write about Israeli destruction of Palestinian records. Nor she say who owned the property before 1948, who is responsible for providing services in Jerusalem, why the Arabs refused to agree on permanent boundary lines, or why Jordan did not create Palestinian state when it controlled the West Bank.
Harris seems to have decided what she wanted the focus of her story to be and then come up with examples to support it. Learning to speak Henrew or Arabic and about the historical background wouid have been helpful.… (más)