At a time when her friends were planning cushy retirements, Nancy Wesson instead walked away from a comfortable life and business to head out as a Peace Corps Volunteer in post-war Northern Uganda.
To comprehend the underlying currents of the intra-Jewish conflict in Israel, which has been labeled differently throughout the years - First and Second Israel, center-periphery relations, Mizrahi-Ashkenazi relations, and in recent years again as First and Second Israel - one must thoroughly understand the nature of relationships between development towns and their neighboring kibbutzim.
Winner, Silver Medal, IPPY AWARDS (Regional Fiction) Elizabeth s Field captures the realities of pre-Civil War life on Maryland s Eastern Shore and creates characters that struggle in extraordinary adversity.
