Conversations Across Place

Volume I: The first volume of CaP grapples with the reflexive relationships of extraction, ruination and reverberation, working towards solidarity across places and perspectives. Within and between the essays, texts, interviews/conversations and artwork that make up the book, landscapes both metaphorical and material are mapped onto each other producing new images of liminal times and spaces that provide a critical opportunity to reassess diverse relationships to the world.

Jerusalem on the Amstel

The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic

A fascinating history of Amsterdam’s unlikely Jewish ‘Nation’.
This is the extraordinary tale of Amsterdam’s prosperous Sephardi community during the Dutch Golden Age. It offers poignant reflection on the meaning of nationhood, the Holocaust and what remains of Jerusalem on the Amstel.

The Unlikely Settler

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seen by an outsider who craves to make sense of herself and the city she lives in.

Lipika Pelham’s memoir is a fascinating study of the schizophrenic atmosphere of Jerusalem, the Kafkaesque dynamics of life for the Palestinians, the dramatic political divisions within the Israeli community, the frequent need to disguise one’s identity, and the tortured logic of what one can do or say, or the language in which to say it.