Just World Books: 33 books
On the Brink
Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On the Brink is a compelling collection of short essays that chronicle a fact-finding and solidarity visit the author made to the West Bank and Israel during the last three weeks of June 2014. Physician, author, filmmaker, and longtime activist Alice Rothchild uses her powers of careful observation...
Survival and Conscience
From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In 1936, Lillian Rosengarten and her family fled Nazi Germany for New York. But even there, the legacy of the Nazis’ brutality continued to cast a shadow over her family for many decades. In Survival and Conscience, Rosengarten describes how she faced those challenges within her own life while gaining...
Inside the Battle of Algiers
Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct attacks in retaliation for...
by Larry Derfner
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
No Country for Jewish Liberals is Larry Derfner's personal and political story of life in contemporary Israel, describing how an American Jewish emigrant and his adopted country grew apart. Taking readers from his boyhood in Los Angeles as the son of Holocaust escapees, through his coming of age amidst...
Tragedy of Lebanon
Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers, and American Bunglers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Tragedy of Lebanon is a reissue of Jonathan Randal's acclaimed 1983 study of the rightwing Christian militias in Lebanon that in 1975 plunged the country into a decades-long cycle of war and civil conflict. For this 2012 reissue of the book, Randal added a piercing new Preface reflecting on the...
by Yigal Kipnis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Israeli historian Yigal Kipnis delves deep into the Israeli and American archives and reveals in this book that the big October 1973 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors could almost certainly have been avoided. Avoided, that is, if in the months preceding October 1973, Israeli Prime Minister...
Manufactured Crisis
The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In Manufactured Crisis, investigative reporter Gareth Porter shows how Israel and the George W. Bush administration successfully waged their campaign claiming that Iran was trying covertly to acquire a nuclear weapon. Porter shows in detail that most of the so-called evidence for such a weapons program...
Where the Wild Frontiers Are
Pakistan and the American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Since 2004 Manan Ahmed, a deeply informed Pakistani-American historian, has been casting his keen and always wry eye on the U.S.-Pakistani interaction on his blog, Chapati Mystery. Where the Wild Frontiers Are is a collection of his blogged essays-a work that will forever change the way its American...
Wrestling in the Daylight
A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Wrestling in the Daylight is an insightful conversation on Zionism initiated by Rabbi Brant Rosen, a prominent Jewish activist from Chicago, on his social-justice blog Shalom Rav. After Israel's brutal military attack on Gaza in 2008-2009, Rosen began to question his lifelong Zionist beliefs. Unlike...
by Chas Freeman, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most brilliant and experienced diplomats and an outspoken advocate of diplomacy and other measures short of war to address international problems. In America's Continuing Misadventures in the Middle East, Freeman builds upon an earlier volume on Washington's...
Troubled Triangle
The United States, Turkey, and Israel in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In the years after 2009, the once-warm relations between Turkey and Israel have deteriorated sharply. To complicate matters further, both countries are close partners of the United States. In April 2011, veteran Middle East analyst and policymaker William B. Quandt brought leading scholar-practitioners...
by Chas W. Freeman Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most brilliant, experienced—and witty—diplomats. America's Misadventures starts with his previously unpublished reflection on Pres. George H. W. Bush's handling of the Iraq-Kuwait crisis of 1990-91. (He was U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia at...
Arabia Incognita
Dispatches from Yemen and the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Yemen is an intriguing, strategically located country that is the perennial "poor relation" of the wealthy oil monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula and has been plagued by deadly conflict since early 2015. In 2011, it saw a broad eruption of the mass protests associated with the "Arab...
Condition Critical
Life and Death in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Since 2003, obstetrician Alice Rothchild has traveled annually to Israel/Palestine with other concerned Americans, to learn about health and human rights situation of politically marginalized communities, especially Palestinians. Condition Critical presents key blog posts and analytical essays that...