The Holy and the Broken

A Cry for Israeli-Palestinian Peace from a Land That Must Be Shared

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<p><strong>When dehumanisation and destruction become the norm, the cycle must be broken.</strong></p><p><strong>Longlisted for the 2025 Walkley Award</strong></p><p><strong>Finalist in the 75th US National Jewish Book Awards</strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted for the 2026 Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards - </strong><strong>The Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction</strong></p><br> <p>For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked as an educator, journalist and peacebuilder in Melbourne and Jerusalem. When he woke up on the morning of October 7, 2023 to the sounds of rocket sirens over Jerusalem and later saw the devastation of Gaza in response, the grief and sadness that engulfed him - and so many others - compelled him to ask: how can we find a way forward?</p><p>Following years spent facilitating dialogue between Jews, Muslims and Christians, Ittay believes that peace can only be found if we are willing to empathise with the pain of others.</p><p><em>The Holy and the Broken</em> challenges Palestinian and Israeli leaders, citizens and their supporters across the world to imagine a different reality; to look at history with a different eye; and to search for moments of engagement rather than resentment in the narratives of the past that each side tells about itself.</p><p>Ultimately, this is a story that aims to comfort the troubled and trouble the comfortable.</p><p><strong>Praise: </strong></p><p>'Courageous and considered. Ittay nurtures the tender, fragile shoots of peace. The world could do with more people like him' <strong>Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist</strong></p><p>'A book of rare insight and compassion, <em>The Holy and the Broken</em> offers the one thing we thought we'd lost after October 7: a glimmer of hope for meaningful lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians' <strong>Bram Presser, author of <em>The Book of Dirt</em></strong></p><p>'At a moment when many are choosing sides, Ittay F

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781460767078

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

232 x 152 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. UK