Israel category: 987 books
One Palestine, Complete
Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
A panoramic and provocative history of life in Palestine during the three strife-torn but romantic decades when Britain ruled and the seeds of today's conflicts were sown
Tom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and The Seventh Million, overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now Segev...
by Sol Stern
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which...
Six Singular Figures
Understanding the Conflict: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This is the story of six people who lived and worked in Palestine in the 1930s; remarkable nonconformists who tried to find a solution to the deteriorating relations between Jews and Arabs, the two peoples living under British Mandate rule. Some took an active part in dialogues between the two peoples...
by Shlomo Sand
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first century at the hands of the Romans, Israeli historian Shlomo Sand argues that most modern Jews descend...
by David Yellin & Israel Abrahams
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Moses ben-Maimon, commonly referred to as Maimonides, was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and scholar of the Torah during the 12th century. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish philosophers of the Medieval Era. Born in Cordoba Spain in 1135, Maimonides and his family were forced out Cordoba...
The Revolt
The Story of the Irgun
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Menachem Begin was run out of Poland by the Nazis, imprisoned by the Soviets, hunted by the British and nearly murdered by the Jews. To have survived would have been impressive enough. To have flourished- Begin led the first Jewish nationalist revolution in nearly 2,000 years and signed the first...
Aaronsohn's Maps
The Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at age five, as a young man Aaronsohn was a rugged adventurer who became convinced during years of solo explorations that water should govern the region's...
The 51 Day War
Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing conflict led to 51 days of war that left over 2,000 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Palestinian civilians. During the assault, at least 10,000 homes were destroyed and, according...
Palestinian Walks
Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the...
by Yoram Kaniuk
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did—and did not—happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful memoir that the author himself considers a work of fiction,...
The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle
Israeli Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"Throughout my life as a journalist," writes Igal Sarna in his preface, "I have written about Israeli traumas and have seen how new lives are built on the ruins. How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero." In this striking collection of essays, Sarna taps his powers...
The Yellow Wind
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The Israeli novelist David Grossman's impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987—not only the misery of the Palestinian refugees and their deep-seated hatred of the Israelis but also the cost of occupation for both occupier and occupied—is an intimate and urgent moral...
Where the Line Is Drawn
A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Acclaimed, prize-winning author: Palestinian Walks was awarded an Orwell Prize in the U.K. and received significant media attention in the United States.
Standing: Shehadeh is one of the most celebrated Palestinian writers working today. The New York Times says that “few Palestinians have...
A Land Twice Promised
An Israeli Woman's Quest for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she met a Palestinian woman who had...