我的应许之地（豆瓣年度读书榜单） My Promised Land : the triumph and tragedy of Israel

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 512 pages

Publisher:Scribe Publications

Imprint:Scribe Publications

Edition:UK pb + export edition

ISBN:9781925228588

Published:3 Dec 2015

Weight:436g

Dimensions:137 x 206 x 30 (mm)

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书籍简介

《我的应许之地》是一部震撼人心的以色列建国史，也是百年来犹太民族的奋斗复兴史。作者阿里•沙维特以自己家族故事为引子，通过亲身经历、深度访谈，历史文献、私人日志、信件等，通过一个个扣人心弦的个体故事，试图描述出以色列的全景大历史，以引出更深层次的以色列国家思考，并对中东地区的纷争渊源进行了历史性梳理。

《我的应许之地》从作者的曾祖父写起，这位犹太复国主义者是一位英国绅士，1987年却果断横跨地中海走向圣地，意识到这即将是本民族的未来之路；20世纪20年代一个怀理想主义的年轻农夫，自他的阿拉伯邻居处购入了土地种植雅法蜜桔，用汗水在不毛之地培育出富足繁荣；二战时期德军将至，具有先知使命感的古特曼，率领青年人攀登历史废墟马萨达，激励他们心中强大的犹太复国主义精神；1948年在吕大驱逐的悲剧性的一幕中，全城老小在流泪中背井离乡、渐行渐远；我们看到了二战后纳粹屠杀的幸存者们，在应许之地辛勤地建设这个荣耀之国，并努力将孩子们培养成真正的新以色列人；60年代纵横捭阖的以色列政治家们，在艰难局势中，顽强推动了绝密的以色列核计划；1973年赎罪日战争的惨痛，令举国反思以色列的未来在哪里；以及今天引领世界潮流的互联网以色列新兴企业，还有在那些特拉维夫蓬勃发展的俱乐部里纵夜狂欢的青年男女……

今天，以色列人是赢得了胜利？还是深陷巨大危机，精神力衰退？他们能否复兴和救赎自我，挽救深爱的应许之地？在百年来一幕幕震撼人心的悲喜剧中，《我的应许之地》为这个生活在流沙之地又充满活力的弹丸小国，完成了一部当之无愧的以色列史诗。

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★《纽约时报》畅销书 

★ 被《纽约时报书评》评选为年度图书之一

★荣获纳坦图书奖、美国国家犹太图书奖和安斯菲尔德-沃尔夫图书奖

★本书由当今中东地区具影响力的记者之一撰写，是一部权威且极具个人特色的以色列历史叙事。

自托马斯·L·弗里德曼开创性的著作《从贝鲁特到耶路撒冷》以来，还没有哪本书能像《我的应许之地》一样，如此敏锐而生动地捕捉中东的本质和脉搏。如今，以色列正面临内外压力，面临生存危机。阿里·沙维特运用访谈、历史文献、私人日记、信件以及他自己家族的故事，阐明了犹太复国主义世纪的关键时刻，讲述了一个引人入胜的故事，其整体大于各个部分的总和：既关乎个人，也关乎国家，既具有深刻的人性，也蕴含着深远的历史维度。

我们认识了沙维特的曾祖父，一位英国犹太复国主义者，他于1897年跟随托马斯·库克旅行社访问了圣地，并意识到这是他族人的未来之路；他是一位理想主义的年轻农民，在20世纪20年代从阿拉伯邻居手中买下土地，种植雅法橙子，这种橙子后来为巴勒斯坦带来了蓬勃发展的经济；他是一位富有远见的青年团体领导，在20世纪40年代将马萨达从一个极端教派被忽视的废墟改造成了犹太复国主义的有力象征；他是一位年轻的巴勒斯坦人，在1948年被驱逐出吕大期间，他和家人被迫流离失所；欧洲屠杀期间的移民孤儿，他们从事着卑微的工作，专注于将子女培养新国家的领导；一位务实的工程师，在他一次接受的采访中，对20世纪60年代以色列核计划的发展起到了重要作用；狂热的宗教犹太复国主义者，他们在20世纪70年代发起了定居者运动；特拉维夫蓬勃发展的俱乐部背后的网络企业家和年轻男女；以及当今以色列对伊朗外交政策的制定者，伊朗的核威胁正笼罩着这个小国。

《我的应许之地》探讨了以色列状况的复杂性和矛盾性，并提出了一些艰难但重要的问题：以色列为何而来？它是如何形成的？以色列能否生存下去？《我的应许之地》分析了以色列当前面临的问题和威胁，并利用过去的决定性事件为现在提供了新的视角。本书的成果是一幅里程碑式的画卷，描绘了一个充满活力、处于边缘地带的小国，其身份和存在在当今全球政治格局中扮演着至关重要的角色。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 

Winner of the Natan Book Award, the NationalBook Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today

Not since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension.

We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country.

As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape.

Praise for My Promised Land

“This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit’s] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times

“[A] must-read book.”—Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times

“Important and powerful . . . the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.”—Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review

“Spellbinding . . . Shavit’s prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.”—The Economist

“One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years.”—The Wall Street Journal

作者简介

阿里•沙维特，以色列知名的专栏作家，中东问题专家。沙维特他出生在以色列的雷霍沃特，后加入以色列国防军，成为一名伞兵，并在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学研读哲学。在20世纪80年代，他开始为《Koteret rashit 周报》撰写文章，90年代担任以色列公民权利协会董事会的主席，1995年，他加入了《国土报》，并成为《国土报》的记者之一。沙维特同样也是以色列大众电视媒体的重要时事评论员。

Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli journalist, a columnist for Haaretz, and a commentator on Israeli public television.