Eric Flamm

Portland Zionists Unite! and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These raw, interlocking short stories-set in Israel, Portland, and Thailand-explore the complex reality of modern Israel, its recent history, and what it represents to its citizens and foreign-born Jews. With a range of different narrators-three Israel Defense Force soldiers, a hawkish retiree, a synagogue executive director, and a young video game fan-each story viscerally speaks to the contrasts between Israel's founding mythology and current political realities. Each narrator's perspective is different, but collectively the voices engage with a growing concern in US Jewish communal life: how to countenance an Israel that increasingly doesn't reflect the values of American Jews.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eric Flamm
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781087934877
• Artikelnr.: 60756205

Autorenporträt

Eric Flamm was raised in southern Minnesota and studied English literature and Chinese at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. After graduating, he worked as a journalist in Taiwan, and then at a startup technology company in Israel, where he became a citizen. In 1996, he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and eventually joined an artillery unit as a reservist. In 2001, he moved to Portland, where he still lives with his wife and two children. Since 2012, Flamm has been active in Israel advocacy, including the promotion of a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The first chapter of Portland Zionists Unite! is based on a short story which won honorable mention in the Writecorner Press Short Fiction Awards.