Name: When We See You Again
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Author: Rachel Goldberg-Polin
ISBN: 9798217198009

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rachel Goldberg-Polin

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2026

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.082 x 13.97 x 1.778 cm

ISBN13

9798217198009

When We See You Again

Rachel Goldberg-Polin (Author) · Penguin · Hardcover

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Synopsis "When We See You Again"

A searing portrait of a mother’s grief and strength in the wake of unthinkable tragedy.

Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky. Normal.

On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh, was stolen from a music festival billed as a celebration of unity and love—and, in that moment, her life was forever separated into The Before and The After. Over the next eleven months, she and her husband, Jon, would work tirelessly—in public and behind the scenes—to secure the hostages’ release, to breathe some humanity into the situation while they were experiencing relentless emotional and psychological torment. The power of her raw and fervent pleas soon made her the face of the hostage crisis. And when Hersh and five other captives were executed after surviving 328 days of violence and cruelty, she would also become the face of its ultimate cost.

In When We See You Again, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto paper, giving voice to the broken among us, and reminding us that even when the world feels choked with darkness, light exists in a different way. How do we find it? Her own experience has been extreme, but at its essence, this is a universal story of trying to live with grief. It is a story of how we remember and how we persevere, of how we suffer and how we love.

“There are days when I break completely,” she writes. “I have cried for an entire day straight. I didn’t think it was physically possible, but the weeping never let up. That is a very long time to cry. I kept hoping I would run out of tears. And then there are days when there is a whisper of sun. Not out there in the sky. In me. In us.”

Rachel Goldberg-Polin

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Rachel Goldberg-Polin es una activista y educadora estadounidense-israelí nacida en 1969 en Estados Unidos. Creció en Chicago y estudió en la Universidad de Brandeis antes de trasladarse a Israel junto a su familia a comienzos de los años 2000, estableciéndose en Jerusalén.

Se hizo conocida internacionalmente tras el ataque del 7 de octubre de 2023, cuando su hijo, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, fue secuestrado por Hamás. A partir de ese momento, se convirtió en una de las voces más visibles en la defensa de los rehenes, participando en medios internacionales, interviniendo ante organismos como la ONU y reuniéndose con líderes como el presidente de Estados Unidos y el Papa.

Su activismo, marcado por la perseverancia y la exposición pública de su experiencia personal, la llevó a convertirse en un símbolo del movimiento de familiares de rehenes. En 2024 fue incluida en la lista de las 100 personas más influyentes de la revista Time.

En años recientes, también ha compartido su historia a través de la escritura, abordando temas como el duelo, la memoria y la resiliencia tras la muerte de su hijo.

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