Green Brook Country Club Book Review Presents "My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel" by Ari Shavit

NORTH CALDWELL, NJ - The public is invited to Green Brook Country Club’s Book Review of ”My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel” presented by New York Times Best Selling Author Ari Shavit on Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 12:30pm. The event includes a Sumptuous Luncheon, Author Presentation, Greet & Meet Author, Question & Answer Period, Personalized Book Signing and Valet Parking.

“My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel” was a New York Times Bestseller and named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times and The Economist. It also won the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book 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 Friedman’s groundbreaking “From Beirut to Jerusalem” has a book captured the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. In this riveting narrative, Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, to illuminate the pivotal moments of the Zionist century. In doing so, he also sheds new light on the problems and threats that Israel is currently facing. 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? Provocative, heartfelt, and powerfully compelling, this 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.

Ari Shavit is a leading Israeli columnist and writer. Born in Rehovot, Israel, Shavit served as a paratrooper in the IDF and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jersualem. In the 1980s he wrote for the progressive weekly Koteret Rashit, in the early 1990s he was chairperson of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and in 1995 he joined Haaretz, where he serves on the editorial board. Shavit is also a leading commentator on Israeli public television. He is married, has a daughter and two sons, and lives in Kfar Shmariahu.

~ Ari Shavit’s books will be available to purchase and have signed at this Book Review Event ~

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT GO TO http://www.greenbrookcc.org/index.cfm?ID=151 AND CLICK ON THE DATE OF THE EVENT FOR THE REGISTRATION FORM.

For further information, call 973-228-1800 x234 or email Marlene Cohen, Book Club Chair at mmlc2926@aol.com.