Norman Finkelstein: 22 books
Gaza
An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky
"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book."
—The Intercept
The...
by Norman Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: In the 22-day-long action 1400 Gazans were killed several hundred on the first day alone.And yet while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffering through...
Beyond Chutzpah
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights...
by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka
Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers...
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological...
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller
A Nomad Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature,...
by Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts...
Antisemitismus als politische Waffe
Israel, Amerika und der Mißbrauch der Geschichte
Language: German
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Nach seinem viel diskutierten Bucherfolg "Die Holocaust-Industrie" setzt sich Norman G. Finkelstein erneut mit einem sehr umstrittenen Thema auseinander: dem Missbrauch des Antisemitismus-Vorwurfs als politische Waffe. Wer Israel kritisiert, so Finkelstein, wird als Antisemit denunziert. Im Detail...
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza the December 2008 Israeli invasion was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: in the 22-day-long action 1 400 Gazans were killed several hundred on the first day alone. More than 6 000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged. The cost...
Old Wine, Broken Bottle
Ari Shavit's Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
My Promised Land by Haaretz journalist Ari Shavit has been one of the most widely discussed and lavishly praised books about Israel in recent years. It has garnered encomiums from a broad spectrum of influential voices, including Thomas Friedman, David Remnick, Jonathan Freedland, Jeffrey Goldberg,...
Method and Madness
The hidden story of Israel's assaults on Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some...
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Traditionally, American Jews have been broadly liberal in their political outlook; indeed African-Americans are the only ethnic group more likely to vote Democratic in US elections. Over the past half century, however, attitudes on one topic have stood in sharp contrast to this groups generally progressive...
Die Holocaust-Industrie
Wie das Leiden der Juden ausgebeutet wird
Language: German
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Die "Holocaust-Industrie" – das bedeutet für Norman Finkelstein die moralische und finanzielle Ausbeutung jüdischer Leiden. Seine Analyse ist zugleich eine leidenschaftliche Anklage: Er wendet sich gegen die Interessenverbände, die den Holocaust für eigene Zwecke nutzen, häufig auf Kosten der...
Schools of Hope
How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
When Booker T. Washington, the famed African American educator, asked Julius Rosenwald, the wealthy president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and noted philanthropist, to help him build well-designed and fully equipped schools for black children, the face of education in the South changed for the better....
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