Coming Together, Coming Apart, Daniel Gordis
Coming Together, Coming Apart, Daniel Gordis
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Coming Together, Coming Apart
A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel

Author: Daniel Gordis

Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2020

Synopsis

When Daniel Gordis, his wife, Elisheva, and their three young children abandoned a safe and comfortable home in Los Angeles to move halfway around the world and find a new life in Israel, the future looked bright. It was 1998, Ehud Barak had just been elected prime minister, and peace appeared to be only a few tough negotiations away.Two years later, hope had turned to terror, as the rattle of machine-gun fire perforated the night and the frightened, exhausted children clung desperately to their stuffed animals in fitful sleep, dreaming perhaps of the quiet, peaceful world they had left behind.In Coming Together, Coming Apart, Gordis tells a timely, relevant, and deeply personal tale that lays bare the complex problems of the seemingly intractable and often incomprehensible Israeli-Palestinian conflict, revealing how much is at stake and underscoring the toll the struggle takes on every human being it touches.

About Daniel Gordis

Daniel Gordis is the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College—Israel’s first liberal arts college—which he helped found in 2007. The author of numerous books on Jewish thought and political currents in Israel, he has twice won the National Jewish Book Award, including the prize for Book of the Year for Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn. Raised and educated in the United States, he has been living in Jerusalem since 1998.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary

In this volume Daniel Gordis writes of his life in Israel from when he family moved from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. It covers the events of the Terror War (2000-2005), after Barak's offer of Gaza, half of Jerusalem and almost the entire West Bank to the Arabs was met by a bloody war of terror against......more

Goodreads review by Julie

I was given this book to read before I spend a month in the Middle East. It's the story of an American family with school-age kids who emigrated to Israel in 2000 and their lives in Jerusalem during a very dangerous period of suicide bombings and terrorist attacks. It's part memoir, part op-ed, and......more

Goodreads review by Mannie

Just finished another fabulous book from Daniel Gordis. ‘Coming Together, Coming Apart’ is a personal(ized) story of Israel and Israeli life from the beginning of the second Intifada to the unilateral disengagement from Gaza. Gordis is a master storyteller and here he blends his personal and family......more

Goodreads review by Alan

This books is quite engaging. Gordis describes with realism, passion, and honesty his love of Israel. This love led to his making aliyah and living through the difficult times of the Intifada. Gordis's writing is beautiful. I highly recommend this book to people who want to know the inner struggles......more

Goodreads review by Diane

The third of my Israeli trilogy, this time a memoir. An Orthodox rabbi has emigrated to Israel with his wife and three children. The memoir is about life near the west bank during the 2nd Intifada in 2002. It's about terrorism, death,fear, and bombings as well as the search for the meaning of a coun......more

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