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How
Israel Lost: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author
To Speak at Pomona College
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On February 15, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard
Ben Cramer will visit Pomona College to talk about his
latest book, How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
(Simon & Schuster, 2004). The questions are modeled after
the questions asked at a Passover Seder, are: “Why do we
care about Israel?”; “Why don’t the Palestinians have a
state?”; “What is a Jewish state?”; and “Why is there no
peace?”
The lecture will begin at 4:15 pm in the Pomona College
Smith Campus Center, Room 208 (170 E. Sixth St., Claremont).
It is sponsored by the Pomona College Politics Department
and Pomona’s Program in International Relations. For more
information, call (909) 621-8933.
Richard Ben Cramer was dispatched to Egypt for two weeks in
1977 to cover the Middle East peace talks, but remained in
the Middle East through the talks and for the invasion of
Lebanon by Israel. His reporting from the front lines of the
invasion won him a Pulitzer Prize for international
reporting, and he stayed abroad in the Middle East, Africa,
and Europe for six years as a correspondent for the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Cramer’s experience in the Middle East was both a resource
and a motivation for him in writing How Israel Lost.
Returning to the area after almost 25 years, Cramer noticed
that things were different with regards to Israel and its
place in the world. In an interview with Beliefnet (www.beliefnet.com),
Cramer explains: “I realized something big had changed.
Israel was losing the assumption on the part of the world
that what she did was moral and for her own survival.” The
self-described Zionist somewhat controversially assigns most
of the blame for the changes he notes to Israel itself.
In addition to How Israel Lost, Cramer has written
What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now: A Remembrance
(2002) and Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life (2000),
which examine the public and private lives of the two famous
baseball players, as well as What It Takes: The Way to
the White House (1993), a chronicle of six presidential
hopefuls in the 1988 campaign. As a freelance writer, Cramer
has been published in Newsweek, Time,
Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sports
Illustrated and the New York Times
Magazine. Cramer has also written or co-written, and
narrated, a number of television documentaries, including
“The Battle Over Citizen Kane” (1995).
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. For more information on Pomona College,
visit its Website at www.pomona.edu. |
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