Coming Home to Jerusalem
Subtitle: A Personal Journey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: June 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780684869513
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Personal Memoirs; Jerusalem; Biography/Autobiography; Israel - History; Journalists; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Israel; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Ethnic Cultures - General; Middle East - Israel; Biography & Autobiography / General; Arab-Israeli conflict; Jews, American; Orange, Wendy,; 1943-; 1993-; Biography
First sentence: Once off the plane Michael hails a taxi to drive us up to Jerusalem.
Description: "Amid language barriers, household drama, homesickness, and a halting job search, Wendy Orange strives to settle her small family in Israel for the long term. Her sociability and interest in her surroundings fast connect her to a wide assortment of Israel's varied personalities: famous authors, obscure artists, politicians, psychologists, journalists, American-Israeli housewives, evangelical Christian teachers.".

"Crisscrossing from Israel to the territories, Orange confronts views of the world that are completely at odds and she experiences in a profound way the ancient conflicts as she becomes absorbed with people who are at polar extremes: peaceniks and settlers, the political elite and the downtrodden, high-profile intellectuals and young soldiers. She is drawn into subcultures that coexist, if barely, throughout Israel.

In Coming Home to Jerusalem, Wendy Orange brings to life the everyday in a country she tries to make her own."--BOOK JACKET.