NYC: Gershom Gorenberg - The Unmaking of Israel (Nov. 10)

11/10/2011 - 7:30pm

Partners for Progressive Israel (formerly Meretz USA) is delighted to co-sponsor the following event:

Gershom Gorenberg: The Unmaking of Israel -
book reading and discussion

Thursday, November 10th, 7:30 PM
Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Cost: $10

Location: 274 Garfield Place (corner of Garfield & 8th Avenue),
Park Slope, Brooklyn
For directions by mass transit or car, and a map, click here.

Israeli journalist and historian Gershom Gorenberg has just released his new book, The Unmaking of Israel, which offers a penetrating and provocative argument on how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism, threatening the prospects for peace and democracy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensifies. Informing his examination using interviews in Israel and the West Bank and with access to previously classified Israeli documents, Gorenberg delivers an incisive discussion of the causes and trends of extremism in Israel’s government and society. Join us for a book reading and discussion.

Presented by Congregation Beth Elohim.
Additional co-sponors: J Street NYC and Americans for Peace Now.

 

About Gershom Gorenberg:

Gershom Gorenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unmaking of Israel, on the crisis of Israeli democracy and how to solve it. The book will be published in November by HarperCollins and is now available for pre-order online.

Gershom's previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 (Times Books). Based on previously unpublished documents and extensive interviews, The Accidental Empire presents a strikingly new picture of Israel's post-1967 history, of major Israeli leaders, and of Israel-U.S. relations.

He is also the author of The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, which portrays the role of religious radicalism in the Mideast conflict.

Read more about Gershom at his blog, South Jerusalem.