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With lofty ideals, spectacular ambivalence, and endearing naivet, Jonathan Garfinkel explores Israel and Palestine by talking to ordinary people. Jonathan Garfinkel cant make up his mindnot about his girlfriend, or Judaism, or Israel. After hearing about a house in Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs coexist in peace, he decides its time to venture there. In Israel, nothing is as he imagined it, and nothing is as he was taught. Garfinkel gives us the people behind the headlines: from secret assignations with Palestinian activists and an uninvited visit at an Arab refugee camp to Passover with Orthodox Jewish friends and finding the truth about the mythic coexistence house, Ambivalence is the provocative, surreal, and often hilarious chronicle of his travels. In this part memoir and part quest, Garfinkel struggles with the growing divisions in a troubled region and with the divide in his soul. Marvelous. Garfinkel deftly mines what it means to simultaneously belong, disavow, love, and loathe an identity, a culture, and a history.... A must-read.David Rakoff

Who reads Ambivalence : adventures in Israel and Palestine?

Author

Garfinkel, Jonathan

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393066746

Category

travel

Subjects

History, Travel, Biography

Rating

3.62 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14