Children of Israel, Children of Palestine

by Holliday, Laurel

• ISBN13: 9780671008024
• ISBN10: 0671008021
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Pocket Books

Summary

This mesmerizing collection of stories features accounts by 36 men and women, boys and girls, who tell of their coming of age in a land of turmoil. Publication scheduled to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the State of Israel. 8-page photo insert.

Author Biography

Laurel Holliday, formerly a college teacher, editor, and psychotherapist, now writes full time in Seattle. She is the award-winning author of Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries and Children of "The Troubles": Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland. Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories is the third book in the Children of Conflict series. Ms. Holliday is currently at work on the next anthology in the series, Children of the Dream: Growing Up Black in America.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
NO OTHER STORM by Moshe Shamir
THUMBPRINT by Ehud Ben-Ezer
MARKED BY THE TEETH by Moshe Dor
THE ARAK OF ABU-ANTON by Yehudit Hendel
THE DARK VILLAGES by Reuven Miran
EARLY LESSONS OF SEPARATION by Anan Ameri
I SURVIVED THE WAR by Musa Jamil Jaffer (pseudonym)
GOING TO JERUSALEM by Gunter David
A CHRISTIAN PALESTINIAN'S STORY by Wadad Saba
YEHEZKEL by Yitzhak Bar-Yossef
PARADISE ON THE BORDER by Yael Medini
TEN CENTIMETERS OF DUST by Shammai Golan
TRACINGS by Basim Abdoraad (pseudonym)
HOPES ARE HOPES by Leah Ayalon
TZIPORI by Reuven Miran
MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION by Ibtisam S. Barakat
A CHILD IN RAFAH CAMP by Ahmed Younis
IN THE COURTYARD OF THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE OF THE KIBBUTZ by Shuli Dichter
A CHILD'S MISGIVINGS ABOUT THE WAR by Mohammad Zahaykeh
SHARDS by Tanya Gardiner-Scott
BORDERLAND by Mohammad Masad
BORN IN BETHLEHEM by Marina N. Riadi
CHILDHOOD/MANHOOD by Omar Mahdawi
CHILDREN OF A TENTH-CLASS GOD? by Nihaya Qawasmi
ALTI ZACHEN by Victoria Kay-Feinerman
CAUGHT IN CONFLICT by Rivka Rosen (pseudonym)
ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS by Nahla Mary Beier
MY MOTHER PALESTINE by Ramzy Baroud
A LOOK INTO MEMORY by Ghareeb (pseudonym)
HEALING THE WOUNDS OF CHILDHOOD by Ammar Abu Zayyad
FACE OF PEACE by Redrose (pseudonym)
MY LIFE ON THE FIRING LINE by Racheli Tal
THE POWER OF LIFE by Racheli Tal
TWO AWFUL WEEKS IN MARCH by Liran Zvibel
NOT AGAIN! by Jeffrey Klein
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CREDITS
PHOTO CREDITS
CHRONOLOGY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT