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Israel Verstehen In 60 Tagen Oder Weniger (2000)

by Sarah Glidden(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3862011542 (ISBN13: 9783862011544)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

review 1: Interesting graphic novel, semi-autobiographical, written from the point of view of an American Jewish girl who embarks on her birthright tour to Israel. Considering herself progressive, Sarah grapples with her identity as an American liberal and a person with a Jewish lineage, struggling with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, where she empathizes with the plight of the Palestinians. A thought provoking story. I thought this graphic novel important, thorough, and well written, but a little dry at times.
review 2: I was excited to read this book because my college-age daughter will be traveling to Israel over the summer. This is a graphic travelogue of a 60 day trip to Israel by a young female hipster from Brooklyn NY (Williamsburg). The narrator is a progressi... moreve, liberal 26-yr-old. A secular Jew with antagonistic feelings towards Israel. Concerned for the plight of Palestinian people and critical of the Jewish state, she takes this free trip to Israel, in part to reaffirm her opinions. I really really wanted to love this book but jeez, this author has to be one of the most irritating, smug personalities. She is so self-righteous, intolerant and judgemental to the point of ad nauseum. She feels compelled to make everyone she comes into contact with agree with her opinions in a condescending, preachy attitude, because, after all, her opinions are the right ones. Other parts were just long-winded and boring. By the end of the book she is in the same place that she started. No deeper understandings, nothing new to offer us, just her still conflicted thoughts, only written out in comic book form. Disappointing. less

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