On the August day of my visit the area was eerily deserted, apart from IDF soldiers on patrol. A decade and a half earlier, during the first Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, Chaiken’s husband Yona had been stabbed in one of its narrow alleyways by a Palestinian assailant while out shopping. The historic city center nearby was once a bustling hub before the closure of the casbah during the second intifada in 2003. In 1994 Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli settler terrorist and the legal guardian of the Chaikens’ children, gunned down twenty-nine Palestinian supplicants bowed in early morning prayer-his shocking and deplorable act set off months of rioting and helped doom the Oslo peace process. As the motor coach creaked to a stop at the top of a sharp curve, I caught a glimpse of the hulking stone edifice of the Tomb of the Patriarchs / Ibrahami Mosque, a holy site to both Judaism and Islam. 343 Illustrations follow page 142 CIT Y O N A HIL LTO P Introduction M alka (Marilyn) Chaiken met me at the bus stop in the Avraham Avinu (Abraham Is Our Forefather) neighborhood of the city of Hebron as I disembarked from the armored Egged public bus from Jerusalem on a dusty, hot August morning.143 5. Scripture and Sound Bite: American-Israeli Settlers from Public Relations to Public Enemy .98 4. Turn Left at the End of the World: Garin Lev Zion and the Origins of Tekoa .58 3. Redemption in Occupied Suburbia? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and the West Bank Settlement of Efrat .22 2. City of the Sea: The Rise and Fall of Garin Yamit . 1 1. From Moment to Movement: Jewish-American Immigration to the Occupied Territories .H56 2017 | DDC 305.892/405695309045-dc23 LC record available at Cover photograph: Palestinian shepherd grazing his flock outside the settlement of Efrat, by Amos Ben Gershom / Government Press Office, Israel. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Jews, American-Palestine-History. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. Title: City on a hilltop : American Jews and the Israeli settler movement / Sara Yael Hirschhorn.
Scripture and Sound Biteː American-Israeli Settlers from Public Relations to Public Enemy Conclusion Appendix Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index Citation previewĬ I T Y O N A HI L LTOP CITY ON A HILLTOP American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement S A r A YA e L H I r S C H H O r N Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Americ a First Printing Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hirschhorn, Sara Yael, 1981–author. Turn Left at the End of the Worldː Garin Lev Zion and the Origins of Tekoa 5. Redemption in Occupied Suburbia? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and the West Bank Settlement of Efrat 4. City of the Seaː The Rise and Fall of Garin Yamit 3. From Moment to Movementː Jewish-American Immigration to the Occupied Territories 2. Table of contents : Contents Introduction 1.
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