TRACING HOMELANDS

A READING + CONVERSATION

with Linda Dittmar

Join us for an urgent and important evening with Linda Dittmar, who will read from her memoir Trading Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging. A raw and courageous memoir of the 1948 war and its aftermath and searing personal journey to uncover the suppressed traumas, facts, and myths that undergird the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Linda Dittmar’s early years were marked by the turmoil of war and nation building as Mandatory Palestine became Israel. Born in 1938, she witnessed the intertwined effects of the Holocaust and the Palestinians’ Nakba. In the U.S. since 1961, she received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, taught literature and film at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and retired as Professor Emerita.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2023 | 7:00 PM
FREE (Donations Encouraged)
GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY (267 East Main Street, Gloucester)