The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
Palestine 1936 masterfully chronicles the 1936-1939 Great Arab Revolt, a seminal but forgotten uprising a decade before Israels birth that has cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since. In Kesslers engaging, journalistic voice, this book reveals world-changing events through extraordinary individuals on all sides.
This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Israel and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, ......
Most accounts of the history of Palestine start from the premise that giving the country to the Zionists was just, and righted a wrong. How this unlikely event came about is described in detail. The conclusion is that this most historical of thefts has left the Palestinians in a state of subjugation and wretchedness with little hope of ......
Israel's Long War with Hezbollah is both the first complete military history of the decades-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and an analysis of military innovation and adaptation. The book is based on unique fieldwork in Israel and Lebanon, extensive research into Hebrew and Arabic primary sources, and dozens of original interviews.
A Land Torn in Two, Zionism and the Infancy of Ideas (1897-1918)
This volume analyzes the early period of the Arab-Israeli conflict (1897-1948), which encompasses the emergence of the Zionist movement, the spread of Western colonialism, and the end of the First World War.
A revealing memoir by the Israeli leader who almost made peace with the Palestinians. Written almost entirely from inside a prison cell, this is the compelling memoir of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert. It offers a riveting political story and an unparalleled window into Israeli history, peacemaking, and politics.
Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March
This book traces the dynamics in the current fraught relationship between Israel and Palestine to the dramatic events of March 27-29, 2002--from a bloody suicide bombing to the Arab Peace Initiative to the invasion and reoccupation of the West Bank, where Israeli soldiers won a bloody military battle but Israel lost the media battle of public ......
From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. This book brings to life the true stories of six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside of the biblical land of Israel.
Examines the meaning of Jewish politics in Israel In one of the first books to ask head-on what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, Yaacov Yadgar delves into what the designation "Jewish" amounts to in the context of the sovereign nation-state, and what it means for the politics of the state to be identified as Jewish. The volume ......
American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine
Examines how young Jewish Americans' fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge the staunch pro-Israel stance of mainstream Jewish American institutions. The book explores how ......
The October 1973 Middle East War transformed the regions politics and had a huge impact on the international political system as a whole. For the 50th anniversary of the war, this book grapples with these issues in an objective way by using the mass of declassified material that has recently become available.
Tell el-Hesi is located near the modern city of Qiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel, 23 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. The site, which covers 35-40 acres, includes both an acropolis and a lower city. Occupation of the site began as early as the Neolithic period, and the city grew significantly during the Early Bronze Age before ......
This book traces the history of Galilee from its biblical roots to the eruption of the Arab-Jewish conflict in 1948, illustrating how modernization in the region was intertwined with mystical beliefs and practices and developed among Palestinians, Orthodox Jews, Christians, an...
Several world cities are held in reverence by some or all three monotheistic faiths, but no world region has allure to all three on a level matched by Galilee in northern Israel. The region where Jesus came of age, Galilee is where Christianity came into being as a communal faith; it is where Judaism reinvented itself in rabbinic, Talmudic form ......
Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel
Tracing the secret history of the sale of Romania's Jews by the Communist regime to Israel in the decades after WWII, this updated edition includes a wealth of recently declassified documents from the archives of the Romanian secret police. Ioanid tells the full, startling story of an unprecedented slave trade that lasted through the Cold War.
Leading scholars and practitioners of politics, political science, anthropology, Israel studies, and Middle East affairs examine aspects of continuity and change in political culture in tribute to Professor Myron J. Aronoff whose work on political culture has built conceptual and methodological bridges between political science and anthropology.
For two millennia calling oneself a Jew and confessing Jesus-Christ was perceived as nonsense. This is no longer the case. Jewish believers in Christ - "Messianics", Catholics, Orthodox, and so forth - are now reclaiming their Jewish identity. Jewish Church is about imagining what their home in the Church would look like.
Israel's Long War with Hezbollah is both the first complete military history of the decades-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and an analysis of military innovation and adaptation. The book is based on unique fieldwork in Israel and Lebanon, extensive research into Hebrew and Arabic primary sources, and dozens of original interviews.
The Life of Ibn Hanbal is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597/1200), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241/855), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadiths-the reports of the Prophet's sayings and ......
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization of Israel became particularly prominent in 1967, ......
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Middle East, while detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization of Israel became particularly prominent in 1967, ......
A. Andrew Das reviews six proposals for "grand thematic narratives" behind the logic of Galatian. Das weighs each of these proposals exegetically and finds them wanting, examples of what Samuel Sandmel famously labelled "parallelomania." Das reflects on the risks of seeking comprehensive stories behind Paul's letters and offers a path forward.
In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new state and focused on supporting Israel through big, centralized organizations, to an "engagement" approach ......
Drawing on five years of research with pilgrims before, during and after their trips, this book offers a lived religion approach that explores the trip's hybrid nature for pilgrims themselves: both ordinary - tied to their everyday role as the family's ritual specialists, and extraordinary - since they leave home in a dramatic way.
Drawing on five years of research with pilgrims before, during and after their trips, this book offers a lived religion approach that explores the trip's hybrid nature for pilgrims themselves: both ordinary - tied to their everyday role as the family's ritual specialists, and extraordinary - since they leave home in a dramatic way.
Argues that, for supporters of Israel, there is good news and bad news - and that at the core, we are fundamentally misunderstanding the new relationship between American Jews and Israel.
Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. Based on seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, the author provides an on-the-ground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties.
Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. Based on seven years of first-hand observation in modern day Israel, the author provides an on-the-ground look at this hotly debated and widely emulated use of tourism to forge transnational ties.
Takes a different approach toward reaching an understanding between two peoples who have known little but mutual hostility and suspicion. Based on interviews of 34 Palestinian and Israeli teenagers, this book presents narratives of their day-to-day lives, including their interests, facts about their families, friendships, and neighbourhoods.
Since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel has been torn by a deeply rooted conflict between secular and religious Jews. This book analyses the complexity of this 'quiet civil war' through more than sixty interviews of religious and secular Jews, as well as reports of key events.
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Voices from the Ground and Visions for the
In this collection of essays, the authors have brought together a group of peacemakers - Christian, Jewish, and Muslim - whose religious convictions compel them towards peace in Israel/Palestine.
Jerusalem, which means "city of peace", is one of the most bitterly contested territories on earth. This book explains the policies of the Israelis and Palestinians toward the city. Describing the "facts on the ground", it analyzes why reconciling the competing claims is so difficult.
