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The Place I Live the People I Know

Profiles from the Eastern Mediterranean

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Everyone has a unique life story to tell. In The Place I Live The People I Know, author Lori Mendel shares stories from people she knows, gathered from Eilat in the south to Kibbutz Neot Mordecai in the north near the Syrian border.Theres Bishara from Nazereth, Edna from Beer Sheba, Ilan from Jerusalem, Noa from Tel Aviv, Sara from Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, and many more. Some escaped the Holocaust, ... Read more

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Everyone has a unique life story to tell. In The Place I Live The People I Know, author Lori Mendel shares stories from people she knows, gathered from Eilat in the south to Kibbutz Neot Mordecai in the north near the Syrian border.Theres Bishara from Nazereth, Edna from Beer Sheba, Ilan from Jerusalem, Noa from Tel Aviv, Sara from Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, and many more. Some escaped the Holocaust,
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My Promised Land

The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York TimesWinner of the Natan Book Award ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“A deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism’s heart.”—Ezra Klein, The New York TimesWinner of the Natan Book Award
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Israel

A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world—Israel.**Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot-button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But ... Read more

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**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world—Israel.**Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot-button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But
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A Land Twice Promised

An Israeli Woman's Quest for Peace

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An Israeli woman writes about growing up amid war and ancestral trauma and later building a friendship with a Palestinian woman in America.Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the '60s, '70s, and '80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she ... Read more

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An Israeli woman writes about growing up amid war and ancestral trauma and later building a friendship with a Palestinian woman in America.Israeli storyteller Noa Baum grew up in Jerusalem in the shadow of the ancestral traumas of the holocaust and ongoing wars. Stories of the past and fear of annihilation in the wars of the '60s, '70s, and '80s shaped her perceptions and identity. In America, she
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Travel as a Political Act

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**Change the world one trip at a time. In this fully revised collection of stories and lessons from the road, the New York Times-bestselling author and travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from climate change, to rising nativism and populism, there's never been a more important time to ... Read more

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**Change the world one trip at a time. In this fully revised collection of stories and lessons from the road, the New York Times-bestselling author and travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from climate change, to rising nativism and populism, there's never been a more important time to
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The Israelis

Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (Updated in 2008)

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"A panorama of Israeli diversity" (Los Angeles Times) this is a vibrant, internationally acclaimed portrait of contemporary Israeli society.Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has their version, The New York Times theirs. But how does Israel ... Read more

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"A panorama of Israeli diversity" (Los Angeles Times) this is a vibrant, internationally acclaimed portrait of contemporary Israeli society.Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has their version, The New York Times theirs. But how does Israel
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Under Jerusalem

The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City

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**A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval“A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.”—Washington Post**In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics ... Read more

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**A spellbinding history of the hidden world below the Holy City—a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval“A sweeping tale of archaeological exploits and their cultural and political consequences told with a historian’s penchant for detail and a journalist’s flair for narration.”—Washington Post**In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics
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Chasing Utopia

The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel

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A mix of memoir and history offering "a nuanced, unflinching look at the Israeli dream of the kibbutz and its demise . . . darkly comic . . . utterly engrossing" (Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving).The word "Israel" today sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer making the desert bloom: ... Read more

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A mix of memoir and history offering "a nuanced, unflinching look at the Israeli dream of the kibbutz and its demise . . . darkly comic . . . utterly engrossing" (Ayelet Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving).The word "Israel" today sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer making the desert bloom:
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The Wall Between Us

Notes from the Holy Land

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"The biology of Israel/Palestine simply and beautifully revealed," from the author of Down and Out Today: Notes from the Gutter (Jon Snow, journalist and presenter).Writer Matthew Small traveled to the Holy Land to further his understanding of the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine. While there, he discovered beauty, fear and suffering like nowhere else in the world. In these honest ... Read more

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"The biology of Israel/Palestine simply and beautifully revealed," from the author of Down and Out Today: Notes from the Gutter (Jon Snow, journalist and presenter).Writer Matthew Small traveled to the Holy Land to further his understanding of the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine. While there, he discovered beauty, fear and suffering like nowhere else in the world. In these honest
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My Father, His Daughter

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A life of one of Israel's greatest heroes, as seen through his daughter's eyesMoshe Dayan was one of the greatest military leaders in Israel's short history. A child of the first kibbutz movement in British Palestine, he went on to lead Israel to victory in the 1948 War of Independence and to liberate Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. Dayan was not only a soldier but a politician, an ... Read more

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A life of one of Israel's greatest heroes, as seen through his daughter's eyesMoshe Dayan was one of the greatest military leaders in Israel's short history. A child of the first kibbutz movement in British Palestine, he went on to lead Israel to victory in the 1948 War of Independence and to liberate Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. Dayan was not only a soldier but a politician, an
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash

Writers Confront the Occupation

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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence-an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers ... Read more

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A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence-an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers
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Secrets of the Temple Mount

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In Jerusalem archeologists labor to discover what lies beneath the Temple Mount, the magnificent edifice that has served the faithful as a symbol of Gods glory for 3,000 years and remains at the crossroads of the three great monotheistic religions. Here, award-winning journalist Joshua Hammer discovers, interpretations of ancient history are being shaped by modern-day politics. ... Read more

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In Jerusalem archeologists labor to discover what lies beneath the Temple Mount, the magnificent edifice that has served the faithful as a symbol of Gods glory for 3,000 years and remains at the crossroads of the three great monotheistic religions. Here, award-winning journalist Joshua Hammer discovers, interpretations of ancient history are being shaped by modern-day politics.
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