Troubled Dawn Of The 21St Century

Troubled Dawn of the 21st Century began as a writer's notebook and led to my transition from the art of the novel to a novelist's singular style of journalism. At the end of September 2000 I was mentally constructing my next novel when my work was abruptly replaced by the existential conflict that has occupied me ever since. The alleged provocation of Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, followed two days later by the al Dura blood libel, jolted the course of contemporary history.I recognized immediately that a real life novel was unfolding before my eyes. And I began to grasp it in terms that only a novelist could perceive and elaborate. Since the late 1970s I had been writing almost exclusively in French. Neither assimilated nor integrated nor expatriated, I lived harmoniously with my share of France. Like a bird, briefly pausing on a branch. I felt no need for roots. Immigration was my homeland. From Mittleuropa to the United States to Western Europe, why not?But the tree that supported that branch began to shake violently and sent me flying into emergency mode. Like so many cosmopolitan Jews that did not wear that identity on their lapels or on a fine gold chain, I was thrust into a virtual ghetto, a frenzy of meetings, lectures, broadsides, facts & figures sustained by newly formed groups and revitalized institutions. In that atmosphere of heightened awareness and concrete danger--violent anti-Semitic acts were counted by the hundreds, adding up to thousands--I used every skill and talent with which I am endowed to observe, analyze, and express the momentous transformation of contemporary reality. The chronicle published here is a unique document composed in a fertile geopolitical crescent --France, Israel, the US--in a historical period of radical transformation. No retrospective account could ever capture the full force of that living breathing reality.

• | Author: Nidra Poller
• | Publisher: Authorship Intl
• | Publication Date: Mar 08, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 364 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0988711982
• | ISBN-13: 9780988711983