{"product_id":"arab-jew-9780593804452","title":"Arab\/Jew","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s heart-tugging memoir of his larger-than-life father and of his family caught between worlds, uncovering the buried legacy of Arab-Jewish coexistence that reframes today’s most intractable conflicts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaurice Chammah’s father, Albert, was a charismatic raconteur whose untraceable accent spoke of vast distances traversed. Born in 1928 in Aleppo, Syria, Albert was the product of a long line of holy men in a Jewish community thousands of years old. Still a mere teenager, he cast out for America, ultimately reinventing himself as a cosmopolitan professor in the unlikely new home of Austin, Texas. Growing up, Maurice caught only glimpses of his family’s Arab and Jewish pasts. When Parkinson’s disease claimed Albert, Maurice was barely older than his father had been when he left Aleppo. It would fall to Maurice to use his talents as a journalist to trace his father’s hidden steps and reknit his bonds to a people that had, by then, utterly transformed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArab\/Jew\u003c\/i\u003e is the lovingly reconstructed account of an enigmatic father’s life, and a riveting portrait of a Jewish family’s struggle to survive in a rapidly changing Syria. Amid the rise of Zionism, Jewish populations that had once been protected minorities throughout the Islamic world came to be seen as a threat from within. For Maurice’s aunts, uncles, and cousins, this meant a day-by-day negotiation with life in a burgeoning police state, and, finally, their gut-wrenching decisions to mount dramatic escapes and leave their Arab communities—and Arab identities—behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than the beautifully written story of one family in the Syrian-Jewish diaspora, Maurice’s narrative is also a reckoning with Jewish identity and Israel, where the Mizrahi community, Jews of Middle Eastern origin, anchors some of the state’s staunchest opposition to Palestinian liberation. Could their unique cultural heritage instead underpin solidarity across seemingly unbridgeable divides? With questing empathy and a stalwart commitment to justice, Maurice’s search for the remnants of Arab-Jewish identity shines new, hopeful light on the personal dimensions of one of our world’s most painful unhealed wounds.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":68408940855686,"sku":"9780593804452","price":30.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780593804452.jpg?v=1794393380","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/arab-jew-9780593804452","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}