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STONES (A deconstruction of Zion) was written by David Schein in 1989 and performed by him in 1990 at the Home for Contemporary Theater and Art in NYC. 

That was during the First Palestinian Intifada, known as the “Stone Intifada,” which began with Palestinian youth throwing stones, their only weapon, at the Israeli forces that had at that time occupied the West Bank and Gaza for twenty years. 

At the time of STONE’S publication, 2024, the occupation has lasted 57 years. Gaza is destroyed.  Much of the West Bank has been appropriated. 

Schein says, “This STONE is aimed at the ideologuess and their armies on both sides who continue to inflict horrors upon civilians.”  

About the Author

David Schein has been positioned on the “cutting edge” for over fifty years as a jack of all genres and a professional “big mouth.” He was born in Burlington, VT and raised in Burlington’s Jewish community. He attended the University of Iowa and has lived and worked in the SF Bay Area, rural Quebec, NYC, Chicago, Tijuana, Ethiopia, Germany, and in the Southern Tier of western New York. In 2012 he returned to Burlington where he lives with his partner, Dana Block and their two parakeets, Jet Blue and Banana. Stones is Schein’s fourth book published by Fomite Press, the other three being My Murder and Other Local News (performance poems), The Adoption (a novel about Ethiopia and America), and TOKENS: A Play on the Plague, (dialogue and lyrics from the award-winning opera written by Schein and composed by Candace Natvig English and Schein). To find out amore about David Schein’s work go to his website.