Israel category: 987 books
Jewish Journeys near Jerusalem
A Tourist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Jewish Journeys Near Jerusalem provides an introduction to those sites that are convenient to Jerusalem as a travel base. Hours and fees are given—from the cable car up to Massada to a goat farm in Itamar, from an art museum in Maaleh Adumim to the remnants of ancient Beit Shemsh. The book describes...
An Unpromising Land
Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The Jewish migration at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries was one of the dramatic events that changed the Jewish people in modern times. Millions of Jews sought to escape the distressful conditions of their lives in Eastern Europe and find a better future for themselves...
Defining Neighbors
Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict persists, aspiring peacemakers continue to search for the precise territorial dividing line that will satisfy both Israeli and Palestinian nationalist demands. The prevailing view assumes that this struggle is nothing more than a dispute over real estate. Defining...
by Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Since Israel’s 1967 war, more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the occupied territories, transforming politics and sometimes committing shocking acts of terrorism. Yet little is known about why they chose to live at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sara Yael Hirschhorn unsettles stereotypes about these liberal idealists.
Nationalizing Judaism
Zionism as a Theological Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
This new book by historian David Ohana analyzes Zionism and the Israeli state as a theological ideology. The book pursues this provocative end by showing the dialectical tension between Judaism and Zionism. How has Zionism molded perceptions and images that were formed in the Jewish past, and to what...
by Marcelo Svirsky, Ronnen Ben-Arie
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
How do we contribute to the decolonisation of Palestine? In what ways can we divest from settler arrangements in the present-day? Exploring the Zionist takeover of Palestine as a settler colonial case, this book argues that in studying the elimination of native life in Palestine, the loss of Arab-Jewish...
The Dream of Zion
The Story of the First Zionist Congress
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The Dream of Zion tells the story of the Jewish political effort to restore their ancient nation. At the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in August 1897 Theodor Herzl convened a remarkable meeting that founded what became the World Zionist Organization, defined the political goals of...
Britain's Moment in Palestine
Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons. This book analyses why and how the British took on the Palestine Mandate. It explores how their interests and policies changed during its course and why they evacuated the country in 1948.
During the first...
The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem
Palestinian Politics and the City since 1967
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book examines Palestinian politics in Jerusalem since 1967, and in particular since the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000, focusing on the city’s decline as an Arab city and the identity crisis among the Jerusalemite Palestinians. Principally concerned with Palestinian politics...
by Ben Caspit
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently serving his fourth term in office as Prime Minister of Israel, the longest serving Prime Minister in the country’s history. Now Israeli journalist Ben Caspit puts Netanyahu’s life under a magnifying glass, focusing on his last two terms in office.
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Social Mobilization in the Arab/Israeli War of 1948
On the Israeli Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
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...
All the Trees of the Forest
Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Yosef Haim Brenner
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature. Born in 1881 to a poor Jewish family in Russia, Brenner published his first story, "A Loaf of Bread," in 1900. After being drafted...
A Home for All Jews
Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Orit Rozin’s inspired scholarship focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state’s first decade. Positioning itself both within and against much of the critical sociological literature on the period, this work reveals the dire historical circumstances, the...