Thursday, May 2, 7:30 PM EDT - in person at Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, 60 Highland Street, West Newton, MA

I/P Peace: Tracing Homelands with Linda Dittmar

The Israel/Palestine Peace Committee invites members and friends of CDT to an evening with the Israeli writer and scholar Linda Dittmar, author of a powerful memoir about her Israeli childhood and the Palestinian landscapes she encounters as an adult.

Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging is an intimate, beautifully written account that uncovers inconvenient truths about an embattled Israeli-Palestinian history that is often buried in silence. Its eloquently personal voice charts a reluctant eyewitness’ journey to uncover the ruins of Palestinian villages destroyed in the 1948 war, while weaving flashbacks to the author’s Israeli youth and Zionist upbringing. A braided narrative told with empathy and unflinching honesty, it reflects on the Palestinian and Jewish lives entwined in this searing history.

Linda Dittmar is a professor emerita of literature and film at U-Mass Boston; Tracing Homelands is available in paperback from Olive Branch Press. You don't need to read the book to join the conversation!

Chapters 11-12 of Tracing Homelands

For further information, please contact Sue Lanser.

I/P Peace: Tracing Homelands with Linda Dittmar - Event - Congregation Dorshei Tzedek