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On 22 April 1962 what remains of Göran Rosenberg’s family embark from his native Sweden to make Israel their new home. Transplanted into a nation born only a few months before him, he is first enchanted by its vitality, imprinted by its ideals. It marks the beginning of a lifetime’s journey across the promised land and into its past, a reckoning with the utopian visions and desperate fears that went into Zionism as well as the violence and dispossession of its realization. This landmark book tells the story of that journey – through buried stories and erased villages, dreams and disillusionments, and the histories still unfurling today.
Cover: In the Courtyard of the Third Temple, 1957, by Naftali Bezem. Gouache on cardboard (70x100). Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Gift of the artist, Dizengoff Prize, 1957. Photo: Tel Aviv Museum of Art/Avraham Hai.
Göran Rosenberg Israel A Personal History
‘Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatred’
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Göran Rosenberg Israel
P EN GUIN P RES S ISRAEL
A Personal History
Date: 16.10.2025 Designer: Jim Prod. Controller: Ed1: Ed2: ISBN: 9780241795712 S P IN E WIDT H : 2 1 .5 M M
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