Son of the Cypresses: Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life

by Meron Benvenisti

Book Overview

"Now that I am seventy years of age, it is my prerogative to offer a summing up," says Meron Benvenisti, internationally known author and columnist, Jerusalem native, and scion of Israel's founders. Born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mother, Benvenisti has enjoyed an unusual vantage point from which to consider his homeland's conflicts and controversies.

Throughout his long and provocative career as a scholar,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238257
• ISBN13: 9780520238251
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"