Naor: 6 books

Als Abba Naor am 2. Mai 1945 bei Waakirchen befreit wird, weiß der gerade 17-Jährige bereits mehr vom Tod, von Verzweiflung und menschlicher Brutalität, als die kampferprobten amerikanischen Truppen. Er ist 13, als seine Familie in das Ghetto in Kaunas umziehen muss. Sein älterer Bruder Chaim...

In The Mediterranean Incarnate, anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the Naumachos for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia. He also takes us on a historical exploration of the past eighty years to show how the Mediterranean has reemerged as a modern...

The immune system can deal effectively with the majority of viruses and bacteria, less effectively with parasites, and very poorly with cancer. Why is this so? Why are McFarlane Burnet's and Lewis Thomas' predictions that the immune system is in­ volved in ridding the body of cancer cells, encapsulated...

Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook was the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Erets Israel. Orot is his seminal work of thought, a poetic vision of grandeur of the Nation of Israel reborn in its ancient land.

In many ways, the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 is typical of the total military conflicts that characterized the first half of the twentieth century. However, in addition to the military course of the war, and its formative and revolutionary ramifications, this war was also notable for the social mobilization...

Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social, and cultural mediators between Jews and Arabs. Integrating...