Israel category: 987 books
Arab and Jew
Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The expanded and updated edition of David Shipler's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that examines the relationship, past and present, between Arabs and Jews
In this monumental work, extensively researched and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that...
Land of Dreams
An Israeli Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
This memoir, written by a native son, recalls everyday life before, during, and after the birth of the State of Israel.
The Sword of David
The Israeli Air Force at War
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Founded in 1948, the Israeli Air Force has seen involvement in some of the most dramatic and important conflicts of postWorld War II history. In action during the Suez crisis and on call during the Gulf War, the Force continued to see active deployment right through to the 2006 Lebanon War and beyond...
The Accidental Empire
Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The untold story, based on groundbreaking original research, of the actions and inactions that created the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories
After Israeli troops defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in June 1967, the Jewish state seemed to have reached the pinnacle of success....
Extreme Rambling
Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
'Good fences make good neighbours, but what about bad ones?'
The Israeli separation barrier is probably the most iconic divider of land since the Berlin Wall. It has been declared illegal under international law and its impact on life in the West Bank has been enormous.
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Roy & Me: This Is Not a Memoir
This Is Not a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010
Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me a cross between memoir and fiction truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowars relationship with Roy Farransoldier politician author mentorand his conflict with Farrans anti-Semitic past.Best known for his service with the British...
by Avraham Burg
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Modern-day Israel, and the Jewish community, are strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been traumatized and has lost the ability to trust itself, its neighbors or the world around it. He shows that this is one of the causes...
The Making of Modern Zionism
The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed...
The Politics of Dispossession
The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Ever since the appearance of his groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America's most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our most intelligent and bracingly heretical writer on affairs involving not only...
Antisemitism and Modernity
Innovation and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
The subject of anti-Semitism, not long ago thought to be a dead issue, has been revised due to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Maccoby traces the now topical discussion of the origins of Anti-Semitism, and especially its development in the modern world. The key questions that are addressed...
by Vladimir Jabotinsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Vladimir Jabotinsky is well remembered as a militant leader and father of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement, but he was also a Russian-Jewish intellectual, talented fiction writer, journalist, playwright, and translator of poetry into Russian and Hebrew. His autobiography, Sippur yamai, Story...
"Not by Might, Nor by Power"
The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice.
Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium...
The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention
The notion of a humanitarian “lesser evil” has become instrumental in justifying the West’s military adventures. It informs obscene calculations determining how much collateral damage is permissible...
by Avi Shilon
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Menachem Begin, father of Israel's right wing and sixth prime minister of the nation, was known for his unflinchingly hawkish ideology. And yet, in 1979 he signed a groundbreaking peace treaty with Egypt for which he and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat received the Nobel Prize for Peace. Such a contradiction...