Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history. — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable. — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots in Western fantasies about barbaric others, has been to focus primarily on 'cultural' rather than 'individual' realities. The irony is that anthropology has always been rooted in an 'I' - understood as having a complex… — Ruth Behar Copy Share
“It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter. — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image