Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood. She has just completed My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century, forthcoming from Yale. One of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, she lives in Jerusalem.
The race for "Jewish" bedrock has turned a Jerusalem slum's archaeological riches into an existential threat.
New memoirs from Israel and Palestine offer the chance not to escape the political conflict but to grasp the way it impacts daily life.


