Haim Gouri was born in Tel Aviv in 1923 and in 1941 joined the Palmach, the elite commando units of the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. An award-winning poet, journalist, and novelist, as well as a documentary filmmaker, Gouri has devoted much of his career to exploring political and cultural shifts in his country. Alan Mintz is editor of the journal Prooftexts and is a professor in the Department of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
Facing the Glass Booth is a superb translation from the original Hebrew account by Haim Gouri containing the sensitive and profound insights and observations of a journalist/poet who attended the drama unfolding in Jerusalem in April, 1961 as a reporter for the newspaper Lamerhav. Gouri's reportage-c�m-literary work provides a fascinating account of unimaginable evil as well as extraordinary epic of survival that lays bare the physical and emotional scars of the victims and the painful self reproach of many survivors.-- "Jewish Book World"
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