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Israel

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Beyond Chutz­pah: On the Mis­use of Anti-semi­tism and the Abuse of History
Norman G. Finkelstein
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The Acci­den­tal Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Set­tle­ments, 1967 – 1977
Gershom Gorenberg
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The Birth of Sur­ro­ga­cy in Israel
D. Kelly Weisberg
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Select­ed Poet­ry and Drama
Lea Goldberg; Rachel Tzvia Back, T. Carmi, trans.
Essay

Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading

JT Wald­man co-authored and illus­trat­ed the new graph­ic nov­el Not the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me with writer and fre­quent David Let­ter­man guest Har­vey Pekar. Read…
JT Wald­man
July 5, 2012
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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Peo­ple of For­ev­er Are Not Afraid

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterShani Boian­jiu, the youngest recip­i­ent ever of the Nation­al Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 Award, for which she was cho­sen by Nicole…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
July 3, 2012
Essay

My Pekar Years

JT Wald­man is the author ofNot the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me and Megillat Esther. Vis­it his offi­cial web­sitehere. He will be be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish…
JT Wald­man
July 2, 2012
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Not the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me
Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman
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Israel: An Introduction
Barry Rubin
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Zion­ism: A Brief History
Michael Brenner; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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The Bomb in the Base­ment: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World
Michael Karpin
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Where God Was Born
Bruce Feiler
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The Book of Telling: Trac­ing the Secret of My Father’s Lives
Sharona Muir
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The ​“Berg­son Boys” and the Ori­gins of Con­tem­po­rary Zion­ist Militancy
Judith Tydor Baumel
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God’s Moun­tain: The Tem­ple Mount in Time, Place and Memory
Yaron Z. Eliav
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The Rise of the Indi­vid­ual in 1950s Israel: A Chal­lenge to Collectivism
Orit Rozin
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