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Liz Shulman isn't the first author to narrate her breakup with Israel. But she does so with humor, decency and painful honesty-a spirit that will move readers of all ideological stripes.-Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of GazaRefreshingly raw and captivating in its storytelling, Liz Shulman's intimate self-portrait offers a powerful account of identity made through relationships-not just with people, but with a place (Jerusalem) and an idea (Zionism). Unafraid to be authentic in her erotic entanglements and honest in her journey, Shulman's account humanizes the complexity of identity politics as she traverses the contentious terrain of one of the world's most enduring conflicts. In a voice that is accessible, inviting, and unassumingly wise, Shulman's collection of essays brilliantly invites empathy, frustration, despair-and still somehow a sense of hope in its radical honesty.-Phillip L. Hammack, author of Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth and Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa CruzGood Jewish Girl: A Jerusalem Love Story Gone Bad is a significant voice in contemporary Jewish literature. Shulman's seemingly innocent love for Israel becomes romantic when as a teen she visits and later attends grad school in Jerusalem. In a conversational, sometimes lyrical-always honest and thoughtful-voice, Shulman writes of her friendships, love affairs, and the myths and truths she learns as she begins to question what she has been taught. By the end, Shulman thinks differently about Zionism, but her strong Jewish identity remains intact. A greatly compelling read, replete with wry humor and wise insights.-Garnett Kilberg-Cohen

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Liz Rose Shulman's book delves into the intricate journey of distinguishing Zionism from Judaism through a social justice lens. Through sincere discussions of love, family, and cultural displacement, this book offers her moving personal experience of disagreement, compassion, and the challenges of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.-Manal Yazbak Abu Ahmad, Ph.D.A ""good Jewish girl"" is one who loyally supports the exclusionary, Zionist project in Palestine. Shulman's book challenges this racist notion and argues for an inclusive future out of this racist frame that has characterized the settler-colonial project between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean since its establishment. -Haidar Eid, Alaqsa University, Gaza, Palestine Liz Rose Shulman is part of a new generation of American Jews who have been painfully renegotiating their relationship to Zionism and the State of Israel. In these moving, intimate and gorgeously written essays, Shulman charts her own personal renegotiation of this issue, illuminating how the political can be so deeply, achingly intertwined with the personal.-Brant RosenLiz Rose Shulman's book tells a story that many American Jews will recognize-being educated in Jewish schools and Jewish summer camps to adore Israel and forget Palestine. She makes leaps in time and space to tell a story that is still unfolding. Her transformation occurs, in many ways, through her body, where the sexualization of Israel is a strategic part of the Israel-project that American Jews are subjected to. Liz offers us an honest journey with the whole of her being-body, mind, and soul-a journey that is required of those who seek to escape their Zionist indoctrination. -Jonathan OfirGood Jewish Girl provides invaluable insights into the process of indoctrination into a nationalist ideology through religion, sexuality and much more. With skillful storytelling, poetic turns of phrase and a rich knowledge of the subject matter, Liz Shulman informs and engages. -Rabbi Michael Davis

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Liz Shulman is a writer and teacher. Her essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review, Newsweek, Slate, Tablet, and Witness, among others. She lives in Chicago. Visit her at lizroseshulman.com.

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