In 1993, Amira Hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in the Gaza Strips's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps.
Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through...
In 1993, Amira Hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian encl...
In 1949 Jerusalem, a young girl knows better than to ask about the sudden darkness in nearby Lifta. She carries the memory of a place once filled with the sounds of stone-cutting men and the sight of women in long, brightly embroidered dresses carrying fruit baskets on their heads. Sixty years later, she finally faces the answer to her own unspoken question. In 2009, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who worked at the Nuremburg trials--and still dreams about the medical "experiment" photos she once filed into endless boxes--now dreams of sailing into Gaza with help and hope for her...
In 1949 Jerusalem, a young girl knows better than to ask about the sudden darkness in nearby Lifta. She carries the memory of a place once filled with...
Die Aufzeichnungen von Hanna Lévy-Hass, entstanden im Jahr ihrer Internierung in Bergen-Belsen, sind ein einzigartiges Dokument. Und das nicht nur, weil sie das einzige erhaltene Tagebuch einer Widerstandskämpferin und Überlebenden des Holocaust sind, das in einem Konzentrationslager geschrieben wurde. Den heutigen Leser beeindruckt vor allem die ungeheure intellektuelle Schärfe, mit der hier eine Frau, angesichts von Terror und Schrecken, ihre Lage, die Situation der Opfer wie der Täter darstellt und analysiert - mit einer Klarsicht und Kraft, die ihresgleichen sucht.§Amira Hass, die...
Die Aufzeichnungen von Hanna Lévy-Hass, entstanden im Jahr ihrer Internierung in Bergen-Belsen, sind ein einzigartiges Dokument. Und das nicht nur, w...
A unique, deeply political survivor's diary from the final year inside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Levy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to record on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity and attention to the political and social divisions inside Bergen Belsen."
A unique, deeply political survivor's diary from the final year inside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Hanna Levy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, em...