GILA SVIRSKY
A Personal Political site
Hi all – welcome to my site!
I created these pages as a resource for those studying the history of the women’s peace movement in Israel.
It includes many of my email reports since 1988 (“Dispatches from the Peace Front”), as well as a book about the early years of Women in Black in Israel.
I have also added new material that I and others have written.
When we do get to peace between Israel and our Arab neighbors, women peace activists will deserve a special place in history.
Some women's peace actions (click for more details)
My New Book
My life was radically transformed by our seven years in East Africa, and the book I wrote about it just came out. I’m really excited!
Waking Up in Africa: A Memoir of Secrets, Love, and Reinvention is not only about the adventure of meeting a new culture and new people, but, more importantly, about my search for meaning when peace activism in Israel was out of reach. Above all, it tells the story of how a group of mostly parentless, indigent teenagers became family for us and for each other; about how they slowly, hesitantly opened themselves up and began to trust us; and about how we could not be truthful with them, as their lives would be in danger if they knew that Judy and I are not sisters, but a married couple.
For more info and purchase: Available on Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Austin Macauley (the publisher), and other sites.
Guest Essays
Elana Sztokman
Mieka Brand Polanco
Women Do Not Obey
Who will laugh last...
Heartfelt thanks to Ippy Gray of Femonic and Michal Schechter for their patient help in migrating and redesigning this website. Also for trying to teach me web stuff and for correcting all my blunders. Naturally, all the errors that remain happened after they stopped holding my hand.
On Happiness: His few friends had told him he could never buy it, but Mr Crawley surmised that they just didn’t know where the store was. Gary Larson