- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Random House Inc; Updated edition (1 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1400049598
- ISBN-13: 978-1400049592
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 1.9 x 20 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,402,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the summer of 1998, Daniel Gordis and his family moved to Israel from Los Angeles. They planned to be there for a year, but a few months into their stay, Gordis and his wife decided to remain in Jerusalem permanently, confident that their children would be among the first generation of Israelis to grow up in peace.
Immediately after arriving in Israel, Daniel had started sending out e-mails about his life to friends and family abroad. These missives—passionate, thoughtful, beautifully written, and informative—began reaching a much broader readership than he’d ever envisioned, eventually being excerpted in The New York Times Magazine to much acclaim. An edited and finely crafted collection of his original e-mails, Home to Stay is a first-person, immediate account of Israel’s post-Oslo meltdown that cuts through the rhetoric and stridency of most dispatches from that country or from the international media. This is must reading for anyone who wants to get a firsthand, personal view of what it’s like for a family on the front lines of war.
Immediately after arriving in Israel, Daniel had started sending out e-mails about his life to friends and family abroad. These missives—passionate, thoughtful, beautifully written, and informative—began reaching a much broader readership than he’d ever envisioned, eventually being excerpted in The New York Times Magazine to much acclaim. An edited and finely crafted collection of his original e-mails, Home to Stay is a first-person, immediate account of Israel’s post-Oslo meltdown that cuts through the rhetoric and stridency of most dispatches from that country or from the international media. This is must reading for anyone who wants to get a firsthand, personal view of what it’s like for a family on the front lines of war.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gordis combines a strong first-person narrative with intelligent reflections. His story is important. On the one hand, it tells about the move he and his family made to Israel not long before Arafat walked out on peace and started the second intifada; on the other it makes painful reading as he tells, not only of the terror attacks raining down on Israel, but of his disquiet at Israeli policy or some IDF actions. But here's the important thing. His left-wing views do not lead to a decision to leave. Rather, given that he and his family are religious, they deepen their attachment to the land. He and his wife decided to stay because they realized they belonged there. His children have difficulties with the violence, the constant news bulletins, but they fit in very easily, learn Hebrew fluently, make friends, and anticipate their future 3 years of military service with equanimity. They are now Israelis, more than they were Americans. Few books make the case for Israel, despite its flaws, as cogently as this. Strongly recommended.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Daniel Gordis' decision to take his family to live in Israel is a brave and contraversial one. This book takes the reader on a journey through the collapse of the Peace Process at the hands of Palestinian terrorists and Arafat's refusal to accept peace. All the while he looks inwards to his own family and illustrates through his emails and records of those early years of the second Intifada, that the home of the Jewish People trully is Israel, and their willingness to live in peace with the Palestinians was continually scuppered by Palestinian violence.
Another important point in the book is the reaction of the Left to the collapse of the Oslo process. It is publications such as this that show how little consideration the international community has shown for the plight of Jews and Israel.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
MUST READ!
30 Aug 2004
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I wish there were words to describe how great this book was. It is so hard to find a book about everyday Israeli life. In fact, is there? I saw Rabbi Gordis speak in NYC in 2004, and bought the book after his great speech. When you read this book, you feel like you are actually living in Israel. He describes every emotion he and his family is going through, the good and the bad. He is a great observer of human nature, and good writer. A must read for those you yearn to learn about contemporary life in Israel
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Excellent and with extreme passion and love
30 Mar 2004
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Excellent real story with extreme passion, love and deep understanding. A MUST READ for everyone.
The Jewish State for the Jews, a people so scarified, so much exterminated all over the centuries, in Europe and especially in the Arab world, world that by the beginning of the 20th century decided to exterminate, destroy and kill every single Jews in their countries, destroying as a result communities of 2500 years, reason why these Jews came to Israel our beloved land and home.
Bravo for Daniel Gordis.
BRAVISSIMO !!!!!!
The Jewish State for the Jews, a people so scarified, so much exterminated all over the centuries, in Europe and especially in the Arab world, world that by the beginning of the 20th century decided to exterminate, destroy and kill every single Jews in their countries, destroying as a result communities of 2500 years, reason why these Jews came to Israel our beloved land and home.
Bravo for Daniel Gordis.
BRAVISSIMO !!!!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Why exchange security and prosperity to live in Israel
29 Mar 2004
Format:Paperback
I've read hundreds of books on Israel -- internal politics, religious strife, relationships with Palestinians, with neighbors in the Mid-East, with American Jews, with the US Congress, etc. This book covers these same issues, less academically but with a human face. The good and the bad. Gordis writes with passion, but not an agenda. An excellent read for anyone who cares about Israel, especially if you have ever considered living there -- or want to better understand why so many Jews have exchanged the security and prosperity they had in the diaspora for life in the Holy Land.
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