Israel category: 987 books
Records of Dispossession
Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2003
No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees. This work focuses on the controversial question of the property left behind by the refugees during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Beyond discussing the extent of the refugees'losses...
Food and Power
A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, Food and Power considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. Nir Avieli explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine, the ownership of hummus, the privatization...
The United States, the Soviet Union and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948–67
Superpower rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Arab-Israeli conflict cannot be properly understood without considering the larger context of the Cold War. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Israel's relationships with the United States and the Soviet Union from 1948 to 1967, showing how the fledgling state had to manoeuvre between...
Grenzenloses Israel
Ein Land wird geteilt
Language: German
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Rückkehr nach Zion! Wofür hat das jüdische Volk zweitausend Jahre lang gebetet hat, geht seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in Erfüllung. Gleichzeitig wird aber um die Teilung des Landes heftig gerungen. Dieses Buch veranschaulicht mit vielen Karten, wie sich die Grenzen Israels entwickelt haben:...
by Roberto Strauss
Language: German
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Die Sprachführer der Kauderwelsch-Reihe orientieren sich am typischen Reisealltag und vermitteln auf unterhaltsame Weise das nötige Rüstzeug, um ohne lästige Büffelei möglichst schnell mit dem Sprechen beginnen zu können, wenn auch vielleicht nicht immer druckreif. Besonders hilfreich ist hierbei...
Palästina - Hundert Jahre leere Versprechen
Geschichte eines Weltkonflikts
Language: German
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Am 2. November 1917 erklärte der britische Außenminister Arthur James Balfour, in Palästina eine Heimstätte für das jüdische Volk errichten zu wollen. Er nahm damit einen genau 20 Jahre zuvor auf dem zionistischen Weltkongress in Basel entwickelten Vorschlag auf. Die Balfour-Erklärung ist eine...
In Israel sprechen die Steine
Eine archäologische Pilgerreise durch das Heilige Land
Language: German
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Gehen Sie mit Hanna Klenk auf eine archäologische Pilgerreise durch das Heilige Land. Die Autorin hat selbst an zahlreichen Ausgrabungen teilgenommen und ihre Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse in den beliebten Artikeln der Zeitschrift "Faszination Bibel" geschildert. In diesem Buch präsentiert...
Sylvia Rafael
The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
"There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.... She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities." -- From the Mossad's psychological evaluation of Sylvia Rafael
When Moti Kfir, head of the Academy for Special Operations of the Mossad,...
by Jeffrey Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
During the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Overcoming their fears and prejudices, the two men began a dialogue that, over more than a decade,...
SUBZ
Biographien aus einer israelischen Vorstadt
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Aufwachsen in den israelischen Suburbs. Wir hatten das ganze Programm: Swimming Pools, lokale Bands und Haus partys, Bong Hits und Picknicks. Die Söhne und Töchter der militärischen Bourgeoisie. Während alle damit beschäftigt waren, inmitten einer brennenden Straße Körperteile aus einem Buswrack...
The Jews: Story of a People
Story of a People
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A vivid and eminently readable story of Jewish history covering 4,000 years, and including extensive illustrations and historical photographs
Howard Fast, the bestselling author of Spartacus, tells the sweeping story of the Jewish people and Judaism over four millennia, from their nomadic beginnings...
Jerusalem
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
“This is an essential book for those who wish to understand a city that remains a nexus of world affairs.” —*Booklist *(starred)
Jerusalem is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, fanaticism, bloodshed, and coexistence, from King David to the 21st century, from the birth...
The Planning and Building of the Hebrew University, 1919–1948
Facing the Temple Mount
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Since the construction of the first Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem in 957 BCE, the site became one of the holiest places for Jews, Christians, and Muslims around the world. Once the Dome of the Rock was built during early Islam, the edifice replaced the temple and for centuries pilgrims,...
Bible and Sword
England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.
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Historically, the British were...