This is one of Yael Dayan's short, rather fractional, novels which ever since New Face in the Mirror have succeeded in mirroring not only the physical features but also the Zeitgeist of her new country. Now, Haim Kalinsky, sixty-five, from Warsaw, is dying in a hospital in Beer-Sheba. ""A common man...(he) had an uncommon moment once"" when he had been forced to choose one of his two sons and had sacrificed Daniel, eleven. However Daniel had escaped the smokestacks and been taken to a Kibbutz, brought up there with Yoram, his closest friend-- surrogate father, and now, years later, Daniel is across the street during the vigil of his father's death, lacking the will to cross it or the courage for a final confrontation. This Abraham and Isaac theme alternates with fitful scenes--of his father's remarriage--exodus to Israel--of his own activity in the Sinai campaign and Yoram's death (a moving one)--etc. The tone of voice occasionally lapses from the elegaic to the portentous but the book projects its schism on two levels--not only the barrier between father and son but also the transition between the old European and new, young Israeli world of which Miss Dayan has been the most representative writer. (Kirkus Reviews)

Death Had Two Sons, a Novel

Dayan, Yaël

Literature & Fiction

McGraw=Hill

'MY FATHER, HIS DAUGHTER'

History

Asia

Farar, Sraus And Giroux

A life of one of Israel's greatest heroes, as seen through his daughter's eyes Moshe Dayan was one of the greatest military leaders in Israel's short history. A child of the first kibbutz movement in British Palestine, he went on to lead Israel to victory in the 1948 War of Independence and to liberate Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. Dayan was not only a soldier but a politician, an archaeologist, and a larger-than-life figure who helped shape the state of Israel. In My Father, His Daughter, Yaël Dayan, who herself served in the Israeli Parliament, shares an uncensored look into her father's life and her own conflicted relationship with him. With poignancy and candor, Dayan creates a profound yet nuanced profile of her father. She relates his strong national pride, his boldness in dealing with other world leaders, and his troubles at home to his disintegrating marriage and multiple affairs. As revealing as My Father, His Daughter is of the man behind the myth, it is also a snapshot of a loving relationship between Yaël and Moshe Dayan, and of a daughter's admiration and respect for a complicated but loving father.

My Father, His Daughter

Americas

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Amalia and David, caught up in the struggle to preserve Israel, begin to assess the toll that the Yom Kippur War and their commitment to Israel have taken on their marriage

Three Weeks In October

Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede

New Face In The Mirror

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Self-Help

Self-Esteem

Kessinger Publishing

Yael Dayan, novelist daughter of the legendary Moshe Dayan and? a public figure with a long and illustrious political career behind her, looks back at her life, scrutinizing it without illusions. Once a desirable, free-spirited young woman and a successful author, she lived with the sense that she held the world in the palm of her hand. And the world adulated both her and the young state she came from. She was an officer in the Israel Defense Force, the daughter of a renowned general, a successful writer—Death Had Two Sons, A Soldier’s Diary: Sinai 1967—much in demand on the lecture tour, and a star of the gossip columns. Now in her 70s, she admits with touching honesty to missing both the vibrant 20-something she was, and the sober woman she became—a fierce political activist and parliamentarian for the left, a fighter for justice, women’s rights and peace. Having resigned her last public position, she must reconcile herself to being a mentor, a participant instead of a leader, yet remaining center-stage on the Peace Camp scene. The narrator’s warm, intimate voice and her rich intellect, as well as her insights, make for a powerful reading experience.

Transitions

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Mosaic Press

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