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Kierkegaard and Lev­inas: Ethics, Pol­i­tics, and Religion
J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood, eds.
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Jew­ish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life, His­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, and Culture
Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds,; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.
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A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strat­e­gy for Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East
Kenneth M. Pollack
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One State, Two States: Resolv­ing the Israel/​Palestine Conflict
Benny Morris
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Ein­stein on Israel and Zionism
Fred Jerome
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Prince of the Press: How One Col­lec­tor Built His­to­ry’s Most Endur­ing and Remark­able Jew­ish Library
Joshua Teplitsky
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Israeli State­craft: Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Chal­lenges and Responses
Yehezkel Dror
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Churchill and the Jews: A Life­long Friendship
Martin Gilbert
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The Dead­liest Lies: The Israel Lob­by and the Myth of Jew­ish Control
Abraham H. Foxman
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Songs of Hope and Failure

On Mon­day, Chris Mori­ar­ty wrote about why she wrote The Inquisi­tor’s Appren­tice. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.So the…
Chris Mori­ar­ty
November 30, 2011
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Pow­er, Faith and Fan­ta­sy: Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East, 1776 to the Present
Michael B. Oren
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Life of the Par­ty: A Polit­i­cal Press Tart Bares All
Lisa Baron
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Churchill’s Promised Land: Zion­ism and Statecraft
Michael Makovsky
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Myths, Illu­sions, and Peace: Find­ing a New Direc­tion for Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East
Den­nis Ross
David Makovsky
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Eisen­how­er 1956: The President’s Year of Cri­sis, Suez and the Brink of War
David A. Nichols
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Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
Shimon Peres with David Landau
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