![]() This is a book to consider deeply, as it challenges every person, especially Jews today, who want to see peace and justice to recognize that wrong has been done, and it is time for "Tikkun" - repair and reparations. ![]() Keltz returns to Jerusalem and witnesses the transformation of life on the other side of the wall - a world divided, as we face today, with no bringing back the villages and life that she remembers. Her story is almost incredible, she tells of having married a Palestinian man in 1967, and living through the Six-Day War as a Jewish "daughter" embraced by an Arab family whose world was to be all but demolished under the bulldozers and bombs for the next fifty years. That was enough time for this young Jewish woman from New York to meet a Palestinian poet, musician, and world traveler. Iris Keltz has compiled an impressive historical account of events and consequences of the Palestinian diaspora which occurred as Israel was created, expanded and defended - a story which few Americans are aware was devastating to the people who were displaced by the creation of the Jewish state, resulting in the annihilation of a culture tied to a place: Palestine. ISBN 978-0986270697 After hitchhiking from Paris to Jerusalem, Jordan in 1967, Iris Keltz had to wait three days for permission to cross a U.N. ![]()
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