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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

2012·172 pages·Nonfiction

Biography graphic novel

Over the course of one day, traces the loss of the author's Zionist faith against a backdrop of Jewish history, recounting how his growing disaffection with the modern state of Israel was shaped by the mythologies and realities of the Jewish homeland.

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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me

Year

2012

Pages

172

Type

Nonfiction

Biography graphic novel History & Politics

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Over the course of one day, traces the loss of the author's Zionist faith against a backdrop of Jewish history, recounting how his growing disaffection with the modern state of Israel was shaped by the mythologies and realities of the Jewish homeland.

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