Jewish Women's Call for Peace: A Handbook for Jewish Women on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Books for the Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, 1990.
First Edition. Staplebound. This 1990 handbook for Jewish American women peace activists was published by The Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza (JWCEO, founded in 1988) and offers feminist perspectives, contexts, and strategies for opposing the Israeli occupation of Palestine, highlighting fellow Jewish anti-war organizations like The Israeli Women's Peace Movement and the Women in Black, fact sheets on administrative detentions and women in military administration, write-ups on workshops in major cities, including Minneapolis' Hannah Arendt Peace Patrol, and resources for community action, media outreach, Middle Eastern peace organizations, a bibliography, and more, edited by singer-songwriter Rita Falbel, lesbian academic and activist Irena Klepfisz, and psychologist Donna Nevel, with a preface by anti-war activist and award-winning short story writer Grace Paley. This anti-war Israeli-Palestinian sourcebook comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950–2023).
8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 85pp, plus ads. Mild wear to staplebound green pictorial wraps, with sunning, dust soiling, foxing, and edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Foxing to edges of text block. Toning to title page from laid in handwritten receipt. Pages are otherwise clean unmarked. Good +. Item #17227
ISBN: 0932379788
Price: $25.00