Why is this book different from all other books about Israel? All other books tend to defend Israel. ISRAEL RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE goes on the attack. Why should my country apologize for fighting fo
In How Israel Lost Richard Ben Cramer analyzes the four questions that have bedeviled Israel and Palestine for almost forty years: I. Why do we care about Israel? II. Why don1t the Palestinians hav
The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam argues that ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the
Envisioning Israel examines the deeply entwined yet often problematic historical relationship between American Jewry and the Jewish community in Israel and its predecessor, the yishuv, the Jewish sett
Rereading Israel: The Spirit of the Matter refreshes current conversations about Israel, while setting aside vitriolic debates and worn postures. This book opens Jewish sources to interpret Israel in
Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official "peace process" and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself. What the Israeli r
Considered by many to be a modern classic, Ancient Israel offers a fascinating, full-scale reconstruction of the social and religious life of Israel in Old Testament times.Drawing principally on
For years, leaders from the Democratic Party have claimed, “When it comes to Israel, there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.”In Israel Betrayed, Alan Skorski shows with extensive dat
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel is New York Times best-selling author Max Blumenthal’s devastating journey through Israel and an anatomy of the extremist takeover of a nation. What Blumen
The U.S. is pressuring Israel not to attack Iran unilaterally to take out its nuclear facilities, which Israel believes are producing weapons to achieve Ahmadinejad's aim of wiping it off the map. Mil
In this account of a social experiment gone awry, Israel Drori exposes a little-known and recent phenomenon: the importation of foreign workers from Third World economies to Israel. Focusing on Roman
This is a festschrift in honor of Tel Aviv University archaeology professor Israel Finklestein, a specialist in the Bronze and Iron Ages in what is now Israel, that has been fashioned by editors Fanta
Israel Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel
Over the course of four years, Jasmin Habib was a participant observer on tours of Israel organized for diaspora Jews as well as at North American community events focusing on Israel and Israel–diaspo
This book considers the differing emotional investments in Israel of, on the one hand, Jews physically domiciled in Israel and, on the other hand, diasporic Jews living outside Israel for whom the cou
