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Please join S-CAR in welcoming author Menachem Klein, to present on his book Lives in Common
This event is co-sponsored by Program on Healing Historical Memory and the Center for World Religions and Diplomacy (CRDC). The event will be moderated by Joseph Montville.
Book Review by Professor Yoram Peri of the University of Maryland:
"What can be said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has not already been said? How much more can be written about the 100 years of struggle between these two national movements, after millions of words have already penned the doomed relations between these Siamese twins? Menachem Klein's Live in Common is an excellent testimony to the fact that it can still be done. It is an original, fascinating and essential work; essential first and foremost because of its original approach.
The prism through which Klein analyzes the conflict is unique, surveying Arab-Jewish relations in three cities in Israel/Palestine: Jerusalem, Hebron and Jaffa. He writes: 'Modern history has joined and detached Jaffa, Hebron and Jerusalem, creating both common denominators, and dividing factors. In each of three cities there is a Palestinian community with its own character and status, and a Jewish one with its own traits. The confrontation be tween Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs is similar in Jaffa, Hebron and Jerusalem...despite the differences, they actually have more n common...'"