Revenge (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Laura Blumenfeld
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1986-2001
- Setting: Primarily Israel and the Palestinian territories, with travel to other sites
- Principal Characters: Laura Blumenfeld Weiss, Baruch Weiss, David Blumenfeld, Norma Blumenfeld, Hal Blumenfeld, Omar Khatib, Imad Khatib, Tom, Rachel
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Politics
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Twenty-first century, 1980’s, Hope, Ethnic groups, Violence, Jews or Jewish life, Revenge, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Ethics, 1990’s, Israel or Israelis, Jews and Gentiles, Middle East, Rabbis, 2000’s
- Locales: Jerusalem, Palestine
The American memoir has proven a most protean and profitable contemporary genre encouraging seemingly limitless permutations, and in Revenge: A Story of Hope, Laura Blumenfeld’s story of confronting the Palestinian militant who once attempted to kill her rabbi father, demonstrates the best and the worst aspects of the genre. By yoking a story of personal loss and recovery with research into the global human appetite for vengeance, Blumenfeld ably illustrates the violence pervading many of the intractable geopolitical crises of the present day. Yet her relentless psychological...
[The entire page is 1966 words long]
- Add Revenge to your favorites