Name: Gate of Mercy
Brand: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag
SKU: 9783838210285
Price: 13.0 GBP
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Gate of Mercy

Family Secrets and the History of Modern Israel

By (author): Dorit Silverman, Translated by: Sondra Silverston

Published by Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag

In Stock

£13.00

Published: 30-Oct-2017
ISBN: 9783838210285

Paperback
140 Pages

Subjects:
Middle Eastern history
Middle East
Israel

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What would you do if your brother turned out to be your enemy? Gate of Mercy takes its readers into the heart of the Israeli-Arab conflict, taking the history of modern Israel to the very personal level of intertwined Israeli-Arab families.Told from the perspective of eight-year-old Avram, the compelling story unfolds over seven decades. Bit by bit, the long-held secrets of Avrams family are uncovered. A story of love and passion, of destiny and redemptionand of the bonds between different cultures that persist despite all conflicts.

Dorit Silverman serves as vice president of the Hebrew Writers Association since 2015 and is also the head of the board of the Israeli literary magazine "Moznaim". So far, she has published 20 novelssome of them searching for the Jewish identity, others for the feminine identity and for the meaning of motherhood. In 1990, Silverman received her PhD in Literature. Her books were translated into several languages, and she received several scholarships, awards, and grants, e.g. from The Tel-Aviv Foundation for Art and Literature, The Dov Sadan Foundation, the New York-based Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, The Israeli Film Fund, and the "kugel" Award for literature as well as The Prime Ministers Award (in 2017).