Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

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Title:

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

Author:

Bird, Kai.

Personal Author:

Bird, Kai.

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Scribner, [2010]

Physical Description:

xvii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.

Language:

English

Contents:

Arabs. Jerusalem ; On the road to Suez ; The magic kingdom ; Arabia: "progress without change" -- Defeating Arab modernity. Cario and Nasser's Egypt, 1965-1967 ; "A man without a country, " 1967-1970 ; Black September, 1970 -- Jews, Israelis and the Shoah. The night of broken glass ; The Hebrew republic.

Personal Subject:

Bird, Kai-Childhood and youth.

Bird, Kai-Family.

Corporate Subject:

American Colony (Jerusalem) -- Biography.

Subject Term:

Arab-Israeli conflict -- Personal narratives, American.

Jewish-Arab relations -- History -- 20th century.

Consuls -- Family relationships -- Israel -- Jerusalem.

Consuls -- Family relationships -- Saudi Arabia -- Dhahran.

Geographic Term:

Jerusalem (Israel) -- Biography.