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Israel

Essay

Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ers and Israel

Ear­li­er this week, Michael C. Kotzin wrote a two-part series on rad­i­cal Islamism’s war against the Jews. You can find part one here and part two here. He has been…
Michael C. Kotzin
May 8, 2015
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Non­fic­tion
Becom­ing Israeli: Nation­al Ideals & Every­day Life in the 1950s
Anat Helman
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Chil­dren’s
Ezra’s Aliyah
Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod
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Chil­dren’s
Israeli Cul­tures in Perspective
David Derovan
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Ben-Guri­on: Father of Mod­ern Israel
Anita Shapira; Anthony Berris, trans.
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Israel Since the Six-Day War
Leslie Stein
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To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDon­ald, 1945 – 1947
James G. McDonald; Goda, McDonald Stewart, Hochberg, and Breitman, eds.
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Con­sci­en­tious Objec­tors in Israel: Cit­i­zen­ship, Sac­ri­fice, Tri­als of Fealty
Erica Weiss
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Fic­tion
New York 1, Tel Aviv 0: Stories
Shelly Oria
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Fic­tion
The Best Place on Earth: Stories
Ayelet Tsabari
Interview

Inter­view: Liad Shoham

by Elise Coop­erJew­ish Book Coun­cil recent­ly spoke with Liad Shoham about his new book, Asy­lum City.Elise Coop­er: I didn’t know Israel has an ille­gal…
Elise Coop­er
January 20, 2015
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The Reck­on­ing: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land — A True Detec­tive Story
Patrick Bishop
Essay

World Zion­ism and Paris’s Per­son­al and Polit­i­cal Patterns

Roger Cohen is a colum­nist for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1990: as a cor­re­spon­dent in Paris and Berlin, and as bureau chief in the Balka­ns…
Roger Cohen
January 19, 2015
Interview

Inter­view: Yos­si Klein Halevi

Yos­si Klein Hale­vi’s first book, Mem­oirs of a Jew­ish Extrem­ist, was first pub­lished in 1995 and was reprint­ed in fall 2014. At the Entrance to the Gar­den of Eden:…
Philip K. Jason
January 13, 2015
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Mem­oirs of a Jew­ish Extrem­ist: The Sto­ry of a Transformation
Yos­si Klein Halevi
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Thir­teen Days in Sep­tem­ber: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Lawrence Wright
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