The book "Shuruch – Cracks in Israeli Literature studies" offers lesson plans for twenty-two literary works* by twenty different authors, which give voice to Palestinians and Jews with diverse life experiences, worldviews and political positions. Each piece offers a suggested lesson plan, exercises and exams, complementary historical information and recommendations for further reading.

"Shuruch – Cracks in Israeli Literature studies" was written primarily for literature teachers, but it is an invitation to everyone, inside or outside school; an invitation to explore the remnants of the Nakba as reflected in Palestinian culture and through its encounters with Jewish eyes, and to imagine alternative forms of co-existence, based on justice and equality.

The author of the book, Ayana Erdal, is a poet, writer, and literature teacher.

On the cover: Poems and portraits of the poet Taha Muhammad Ali printed on the ruins of the village of Saffuriyya where he was born and uprooted from

The book is available in Hebrew

* By Emile Habibi // Benjamin Tammuz // Samira Azzam // Ghassan Kanafani // S. Yizhar // Mahmoud Darwish // Shva Salhoov // Nathan Wasserman // Siham Daoud // Almog Behar // Fatima Dhiab // Taha Muhammad Ali // Naomi Shihab Nye // Ziad Khadash // Ariel Hirschfeld // Adania Shibli // Hillel Mittelpunkt // Laila Halaby // Sayed Kashua // Sami Michael