Israel category: 987 books
by René Backmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this network of concrete walls, trenches, and barbed-wire fences could permanently redraw one of the most disputed property lines in the Middle East--the Green Line that...
by Larry Derfner
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
No Country for Jewish Liberals is Larry Derfner's personal and political story of life in contemporary Israel, describing how an American Jewish emigrant and his adopted country grew apart. Taking readers from his boyhood in Los Angeles as the son of Holocaust escapees, through his coming of age amidst...
Eisenhower 1956
The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
A gripping tale of international intrigue and betray-al, Eisenhower 1956 is the white-knuckle story of how President Dwight D. Eisenhower guided the United States through the Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The crisis climaxed in a tumultuous nine-day period fraught with peril just prior to the 1956 presidential...
A Safe Haven
Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
“[This] revelatory account of Truman's vital contributions to Israel's founding. . .is told. . . with an elegance informed by thorough research."
—Wall Street Journal
"Even knowing how the story ends, A Safe Haven had me sitting on the edge of my seat.”
—Cokie Roberts
A...
Where Memory Leads
My Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's return to memoir, a tale of intellectual coming-of-age on three continents, published in tandem with his classic work of Holocaust literature, When Memory Comes
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Forty years after his acclaimed, poignant first memoir, Friedländer returns with WHEN MEMORY...
Sleeping on a Wire
Conversations with Palestinians in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2003
Israel describes itself as a Jewish state. What, then, is the status of the one-fifth of its citizens who are not Jewish? Are they Israelis, or are they Palestinians? Or are they a people without a country? How will a Palestinian state—if it is established—influence the sense of belonging
and...
Company C
An Americans Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory service, was assigned to Company C, the reserve infantry unit that would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who...
by Yigal Kipnis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Israeli historian Yigal Kipnis delves deep into the Israeli and American archives and reveals in this book that the big October 1973 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could almost certainly have been avoided. Avoided, that is, if in the months preceding October 1973, Israeli Prime Minister...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
The Israel – Palestine conflict is the ongoing conflict of Middle East, which finds its roots in mid-20th century will fall of the Ottoman Empire and migration of Jews. The conflict is attributable to 95% of the problems on Middle East.
Israel Is Real
An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER
In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it, taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Whenever a Jew studied—wherever...
Contested Land, Contested Memory
Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.
After a war, the victors write history. How...
The Hebrew Republic
Israel's Return to History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The saga of Israel is fascinating, unique, and controversial. Yet the whole is constructed from individual episodes. This book concentrates on relating such episodes rather than narrating a formal, conventional history up until the present day. Each section deals with a different aspect of this journey...
Israel, Palestine and Peace
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 1995
“Powerful” essays from a founder of the Peace Now movement and advocate for a two-state solution (Library Journal).
The haunting poetry of [Oz's] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture." —Washington Post Book World
Amos Oz was one of the first...
State of Terror
How terrorism created modern Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
From 1940 on, when Palestine was still ruled by the British, violence and terror were used by Zionist terror groups to deny the rights of the indigenous Palestinians to the land they had lived in for generations, and to attack anyone, including the British, who tried to uphold those rights. It is uncomfortable...