Alice Rothchild on Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience

Physician and Author to speak on Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience
Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 7 pm

Alice Rothchild, a physician, activist and author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience, will speak in Lacey, at 7:00pm, March 4th, at St. Martin’s University in the Worthington Conference Center, 5300 Pacific Avenue SE.

Dr. Rothchild describes her book as “… an intimate journey grappling with the complicated historical legacy of Israel and Palestine and my relationship to these issues as a Jewish American physician, grounded by the traumas of the Holocaust and my family’s passionate love of Israel.” Broken Promises, Broken Dreams recounts her work with medical and human rights projects as she examines the reality of life in Israel, the complexity of Jewish Israeli identity and attitudes, and the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Her evocative writing brings to life the voices of people mutually entwined in trauma, and explores individual examples of resilience and resistance.

Dr. Rothchild is an obstetrician-gynecologist and member of the staff of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates as well as an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. In 1997, she joined the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care, now The Alliance to Defend Health Care, and was president of the Alliance Board. In 1997, through her involvement in the Boston Workmen’s Circle, a progressive secular Jewish organization, Alice focused on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its relationship to US foreign policy and American Jewry. She co-founded and co-chairs Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine, now Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston and co-organized the Jewish American Medical Project, now the JVP Health and Human Rights Project.

The event is cosponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, the St. Martin’s University Political Science/History Department, and the Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project and is free to the public. Dr. Rothchild will be selling and signing her book. For more information please contact the Rachel Corrie Foundation at (360) 754-3998 or [email protected]. Dr. Rothchild’s website is www.alicerothchild.com.