This Year In Jerusalem

Mordecai Richler's *This Year In Jerusalem* is a personal, sharply observed memoir and collection of essays that charts his odyssey from the fervent, activist Zionism of his youth in Montreal to his mature, critical perspective on the State of Israel. He recounts his excitement as a young member of the Canadian Zionist Youth Movement and the shared dream he and his friends had of emigrating to Israel to live in the new homeland. Decades later, as a grown man, he visits the country, including a trip in 1992 amid the Gaza rioting, to search out his boyhood pals who settled there and see what became of them and their ideals. Through a mix of travel, reminiscence, history, and political commentary, Richler provides an honest examination of the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, concluding that Israel is 'the legitimate home of two peoples' and advocating for a two-state solution.

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