Israel category: 987 books
The Holocaust, Rebirth, and the Nakba
Memory and Contemporary Israeli–Arab Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Yair Auron's important, innovative and instructive book relates critically to the narratives created by Israeli society regarding the events of 1948: the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba. Auron proposes a humanistic approach of dialogue to foster the brotherhood of the...
Return
A Palestinian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima
“The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place taking me back to London and thinking hopelessly, ‘flotsam...
The Zionist Ideas
Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on Arthur Hertzberg’s classic, The Zionist Idea,...
Vanunu's Wait for Liberty
Remembering the Uss Liberty and My Life as a Candidate of Conscience for Us House 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Vanunus WAIT for LIBERTY, REMEMBERING the USS LIBERTY and MY Life as a Candidate of Conscience for US HOUSE 2012, is the fourth in the series Eileen Fleming began writing in 2005 after her first of seven trips to both sides of The Wall in Israel Palestine. Eileen founded the Public Service WeAreWideAwake.org...
by Genevieve Belmaker
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Moon Travel Guides: Your World, Your Way
In the timeless city of Jerusalem, the past feels ever-present. Thousands of years of epic history are visible on every stone of this thriving capital. Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing mix of ancient and modern with Moon Jerusalem.
What you'll...
Major Farran's Hat
The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
In May 1947 a sixteen-year-old Jewish activist named Alexander Rubowitz was abducted in broad daylight from the streets of Jerusalem. At the abduction scene, a gray hat was found, purportedly belonging to Major Roy Farran, a decorated World War II officer who was in charge of British counterterrorism...
Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948
A Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Between November 1947 and May 1948 war between the Palestinian Arab community and the Jewish community encompassed Palestine, with Jerusalem and Jaffa becoming focal points in the conflict due to their centrality, size and symbolic importance.
Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1948 examines...
Balfour's Shadow
A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
This is the controversial history of the British government’s involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day. Written by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, the Declaration stated ‘His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment...
by Issa Nakhleh
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
This most detailed work explains the effective destruction of the Palestine people. 41 chapters covering: The modern history of Palestine in the 1940s, Zionist and Israeli terrorism and war crimes, historical claims of biblical prophecy, International Law and Israel's violation of it, and finally...
Eleanor Roosevelt
Palestine, Israel and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Memorialised as a US heroine and an iconoclastic humanitarian who sought to protect society’s marginalised, Eleanor Roosevelt also, at times, disappointed contemporaries and biographers with some of her stances. Examining a period of her life that has not been extensively explored, this book challenges...
In Our Power
U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In the years following Israel’s 20089 Operation Cast Lead” attack on the Palestinians of Gaza, a new kind of student movement emerged on U.S. campuses, in support of the idea that Palestinians should gain the full exercise of their human and political rights within their historic homeland....
Predicting Suicide Attacks
Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
As part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial features....
Haifa
City of Steps
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Nili Gold, who was born in Haifa to German-speaking parents in 1948, the first year of Israeli statehood, here offers a remarkable homage to her native city during its heyday as an international port and cultural center. Spanning the 1920s and ’30s, when Jews and Arabs lived together amicably and...
Rhythms of Time
Reconnecting Palestine's Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Rhythms of Time: Reconnecting Palestine's Past looks at how Palestine lost its past, how in can be reconnected and why the past is important for Palestine's present. Palestine’s past is crucial to its future. The way the past is understood has profound implications for the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian...