One more... (Too good!) “And yet that evening, as we went bumping back to Tel Aviv in the twilight on unpaved tracks through Negev sands, I found myself somehow hooked by Ben-Gurion’s parting words. A native-born, successful American author, I was not aware of having felt unfree in the land of the free. It was here rather, in this bizarre little place called Israel, amid its harried bristling Hebrew-speaking Jews, at once so familiar and so different, so proud and yet so defensive, that I felt uneasy and hemmed in. How then had Ben-Gurion snared my attention? Something unexpected had been happening to me in Israel which the old Zionist lion had probably discerned; an atavism in a Bronx-born boy, one generation removed from the shtetl fugitives who by the millions had thronged through Ellis Island to form the bulk of today’s American Jewry.” Excerpt From: Wouk, Herman. “The Will To Live On.” HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Check out this book on the iBookstore: https://itunes.apple/us/book/the-will-to-live-on/id385760028?mt=11
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:31:57 +0000
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