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An Israeli woman writes about growing up amid war and ancestral trauma and later building a friendship with a Palestinian woman in America.
Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the 60s, 70s, and 80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she met a Palestinian woman who had grown up under Israeli Occupation, and as they shared memories of war years in Jerusalem, an unlikely friendship blossomed.
A Land Twice Promised delves into the heart of one of the worlds most enduring and complex conflicts. Baums deeply personal memoir recounts her journey from girlhood in post-Holocaust Israel to her adult encounter with the other. With honesty, compassion, and humor, she captures the drama of a nation at war and her discovery of humanity in the enemy.
Winner of the 2017 Anne Izard Storytellers Choice Award, among others, this compelling memoir demonstrates the transformative power of art and challenges each reader to take the first step toward peace.
Praise for A Land Twice Promised
A penetrating, introspective memoir that mines the depths of the chasm between the Israeli and Palestinian experiences, the torment of family loss and conflict, and the therapy of storytelling as a cleansing art. You will not think in the same way at the end of this captivating book as you did at the beginning. David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the 60s, 70s, and 80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she met a Palestinian woman who had grown up under Israeli Occupation, and as they shared memories of war years in Jerusalem, an unlikely friendship blossomed.
A Land Twice Promised delves into the heart of one of the worlds most enduring and complex conflicts. Baums deeply personal memoir recounts her journey from girlhood in post-Holocaust Israel to her adult encounter with the other. With honesty, compassion, and humor, she captures the drama of a nation at war and her discovery of humanity in the enemy.
Winner of the 2017 Anne Izard Storytellers Choice Award, among others, this compelling memoir demonstrates the transformative power of art and challenges each reader to take the first step toward peace.
Praise for A Land Twice Promised
A penetrating, introspective memoir that mines the depths of the chasm between the Israeli and Palestinian experiences, the torment of family loss and conflict, and the therapy of storytelling as a cleansing art. You will not think in the same way at the end of this captivating book as you did at the beginning. David K. Shipler, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
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Praise for A Land Twice Promised:
An Israeli W omans Quest for Peace
An Israeli W omans Quest for Peace
A Land Twice Promised is more than a coming-of-age story; it is a coming-to-consciousness story by an Israeli woman who clearly loves her country. But because Noa Baum is a storyteller through and through, her love of country comes to be far more nuanced as she uncovers and starts to retell the story of her Palestinian friend. This beautifully written book helps us understand that truth is never black and white. Baum guides us though the shades of grey with love and wisdom.
Rabbi Sidney Schwarz , Senior Fellow, Clal: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and author of Judaism and Justice: The Jewish Passion to Repair the World
I couldnt put it down! This engaging book offers readers a riveting look into the backstory, pivotal experiences, and creative process of a storytelling artist whose work sparks important political questions and encourages listeners empathy for multiple points of view.
Heather Forest , PhD, author and storyteller
A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Womans Quest for Peace is an extraordinary book. I hope it becomes a classic. Its beautifully written, funny, sad, and, mostly, its powerful. If we could be as imaginative, compassionate, and open as Noa Baum, we would break down walls and find peace.
Jay OCallahan , writer, storyteller, and NEA Recipient, commissioned by NASA
A Land Twice Promised is a real story of transformationof seeing the humanity in the other and of realizing that we are destined to share this land; otherwise, we will just share more graves. For those who know little of Israel and its history, you will get a glimpse through the eyes of someone real of just how complex life here is, of living through peace agreements which led to more bloodshed, of wars where no one won. But also of relationships that can be mended. I was left with a sense of hope.
R obi Damelin , Spokesperson for International Relations, The Parents Circle-Families Forum
A memoir about coming of age emotionally and politically, told as only a master storyteller could. Absolutely riveting!
Ira P. Weiss , PhD, Jewish Islamic Dialogue Society
What makes a soulfully creative and compelling storyteller? I was struck by Noa Baums exceptionally well-told journey. With her indomitable passion and spirit, she grows into womanhood in Israel, encompassing with exquisite compassion all the many forceful voices of her life.
Hedy Schleifer , Director of Tikkun Learning Center
Noa is a storyteller, and her stories are not fictional fables but true living personal tales of a land twice promised. I was deeply moved to understand the tragic memories of the Jewish people and their longings for a safe homeland. But I also understand by personal experience the deep unjust sufferings of the Palestinian people and their humiliations, frustrations, and hopelessness to the present day. Perhaps through such conversations and storytelling, there can be hope and peace. Highly recommended.
Patricia Rantisi, author of Miriams Legacy and My Name Is Musa
Noa Baum is a masterful storyteller, and she has an important story to tell. Her message is an inspiration and a pathway to all who yearn for peace.
Gerda Weissmann Klein , author of All but My Life and Holocaust survivor
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Special thanks to Bill Harley for use of his song lyrics; to David P. Stern for use of his translation of Nathan Altermans The Silver Platter; to Rachel Tzvia Back for use of her translation of Tuvia Ruebners This Is Not What We Wanted, from In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner (2014), and of Lea Goldbergs A Nameless Journey, from Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (2005); to Naomi Shihab Nye for use of her poem Jerusalem; to Fady Joudah for use of his translation of Mahmoud Darwishs Counterpoint: For Edward Said; to Marcela Sulak for use of her translation of Orit Gidalis Closing In; to Barbara Harshav for use of her translation of Yehuda Amichais God Takes Pity on Kindergarten Children; and to Adam Czerniawski for use of his translation of Wislawa Szymborskas Big Numbers.
Some names, places, and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of the people mentioned in this book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
2015955937
Print ISBN 9781942934493
Ebook ISBN 9781944822095
Hardcover ISBN 9781944822101
Printed in the United States of America
Edited by Brooke Jorden and Sarah Echard
Cover design by David Miles
Book design by Brooke Jorden and Lindsay Sandberg
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To our children, Maya, Ittai, Tammer, Nader, and Ramsey: may peace and justice be your guiding light.
... And the effort, when the night gives too many stars and not enough luminaries of truth, not to insist on the answer.
Orit Gidali, from Closing In, English translation by
Marcela Sulak
Marcela Sulak
Authors Note
I have never met anyone who was not in favor of peace.
I grew up in Israel and have never met anyone, Israeli or Palestinian, of any shade of the political spectrum who was not in favor of peace. All human beings long for peace; every faith tradition prays for peace; every government proclaims a desire for peace. But we have no peace, neither between Israelis and Palestinians nor, for that matter, in so much of the world. So why dont we have peace already?
This book does not presume to have any answer to this question. I do not attempt to give a full or even partial account of the history of the volatile Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Wiser and more learned scholars than I have captured and continue to capture our mercurial history.
This book is my attempt to shed light on how people experience and remember history. Not all peoplejust me and one Palestinian woman I met in America and our families. It is the story of our friendship and of my becoming a storyteller and using the art of storytelling as a peace-building tool.
In an attempt to explore the elusiveness of peace, I have gathered clues from memorys secret hideouts to create stories. I try to give shape to the subtle and mysterious shifts in perception on my journey, from the secure black-and-white narratives of my childhood to the uneasy place of complexity, where multiple narratives, ambiguity, and contradictions reside.
I also try to reconstruct my creative process as a storytelling artist to reveal the transformative power of my art form. The art of storytelling is an ancient and re-emerging performance art form that is not just for children. It borrows from principles of traditional storytelling as well as uses tools from theater to evoke a story in the audiences imagination. The art of storytelling has seen resurgence in the past few decades in the United States and throughout the world.
My hope is that this exploration will encourage you to deepen and expand your listening to the other. I hope it will inspire you to look at your own quest for peace and seek out more stories and encounters with those you see as most different from you or even as enemies.
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