Matti friedman biography of albert

  • Part memoir, part reportage, part elegy for lost youth, this powerful narrative captures the birth of today's chaotic Middle East and the rise of a 21st century.
  • Matti Friedman is a Canadian-Israeli journalist and author renowned for his insightful works that delve into Middle Eastern history and.
  • He provides the background and military narrative of the war from the viewpoint of Israeli forces on the ground in the Sinai.

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    Each week five Fathom writers will recommend Israel-related books, films or podcasts to help our readers through the lockdown. This week, the selections of John Strawson, Colin Shindler, Jane Ashworth, Michael Weiger and Lyn Julius. Read previous recommendations here, here, here, and here by following the links provided.

    1. John Strawson recommends Matti Friedman’s Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel

    This fine book changed my understanding of the role of Jews from the Arab world in the creation of the State of Israel. inom had very much accepted the conventional view that Ashkenazi Jews had played a dominant, even exclusive, role in creating the state, symbolised by the political leadership of Ben-Gurion and the military heroism of the Palmach. This book fryst vatten not only about the secret lives of Jews from the Arab world who worked in Mandate Palestine and other Arab countries to provide critical intelligence; it is also a secret history of Israel’s birth. It

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    Author(s): Matti Friedman

    Biography & Memoir

    It was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; 'flowers' was the military code word for casualties. Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing, otherworldly experiences of a band of young men, plucked by conscription from westernised boyhoods, and charged with holding this remote outpost - a pointless task that changed them forever and foreshadowed the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Part memoir, part reportage, part elegy for lost youth, this powerful narrative captures the birth of today's chaotic Middle East and the rise of a 21st century type of war in which there is never a clear victor, and innocence is not the only casualty. Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkin flowers will take its place among classic war narratives by Ge

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    In 1947, the city of Aleppo in Syria was rocked by violent riots, which had a profound impact on the Jewish community and the scholarly world, particularly concerning the Aleppo Codex. This riot was rooted in the broader regional tensions, spurred by the United Nations' vote to partition Palestine. The Jewish community in Aleppo, which had long been a custodian of the Codex, found itself at the epicenter of these upheavals. During the chaos, the Aleppo Codex, an invaluable manuscript revered for its unmatched accuracy and completeness in documenting the Hebrew Bible, seemingly vanished. For centuries, it had been kept under careful guard in the Great Synagogue of Aleppo, and its loss felt like a monumental blow, not just to the community that had safeguarded it but to the entire world of biblical scholarship. This disappearance instantly transformed the manuscript from a well-preserved cultural artifact into an almost mythical relic, shrouded in mystery. The Jewish community, alread

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