![]() ![]() Sential book for fans of Harvey Pekar and anyone interested in the past and future of the Jewish state. With an epilogue written by Joyce Brabner, Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me is an es. Over the course of a single day in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar and the illustrator JT Waldman wrestle with the mythologies passed down to them, weaving a personal and historical odyssey of uncommon wit and power. ![]() This book is the full account of that questioning. But as he became attuned to the wider world, Pekar began to question his parents' most fundamental beliefs. At that time, Pekar says, he was unemployed and so despondent about his life and his chances of finding work that he decided to look into moving to Israel. ![]() Pekar's mother was a Zionist by way of politics, his father by way of faith, and he inevitably grew up a staunch supporter of Israel. He recalls that his relationship to the State of Israel began to change in the 1960s, when he became friendly with leftists and Marxists and was exposed to their world view. ![]() Desc : In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, one of the final graphic memoirs from the man who defined the genre, Harvey Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. ![]()
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