Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land

Rosenthal explores a people who, while consciously living in a war zone, contribute to one of the most vibrant civic societies anywhere. It is the story of ordinary people living in an extraordinary place.

The Israelis

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A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars

Provides an unbiased analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict, tracing the history of Israel from the roots of the Zionist enterprise though the second Palestinian intifada, examining Israel's major conflicts and leaders to challenge the nation's internal and external identities.

Right to Exist

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Ex-library copy. Torn out front matter and other library markings. 

Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State, and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma

"After centuries of persecution and contempt, European Jews were slowly emancipated in the nineteenth century. This gave them a chance to become what they were never allowed to be before; loyal citizens of the countries where they lived. As the nineteenth century wore on, however, this emancipation proved to be an illusion. The hatred once based on religion made way for a new and more insidious form of anti-Semitism based on race and culture. The Jew was still a stranger, his position the more false and humiliating for his attempt to assimilate. This was the Jewish Question, to which, at the end of the nineteenth century, a drastic solution was proposed. In 1896, Viennese journalist Theodore Herzl first coined the term "Zionism," for a movement to found a homeland where Jews could live free from his persecution." "In The Controversy of Zion, Wheatcroft shows how Zionism, proposed as an answer, has instead raised many questions. He examines in detail the debates over Jewish nationalism, from the time of Herzl through Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, introducing a host of extraordinary characters: Disraeli and Marx; the early Zionists Hess and Herzl; Jewish writers such as Karl Kraus; anti-Semites such as Belloc; military Zionists such as Jabotinsky; and noble-spirited teachers such as Judah Magnes." "Today there is a Jewish state which is a source of healing pride for millions of Jews, but also a source of anxiety. Should they defend the religious zealots and right-wing settlers who play an ever larger part in Israeli life? Or is Israel increasingly irrelevant to the fabulous success story of the Jews of America? This engaging and original book illuminates the current conflicts in the Middle East, and the continuing Jewish dilemma."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Controversy of Zion

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Ex-library copy. Front end-pages torn out, has other library markings. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Israel's Warrior-Politician

Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, was perhaps one of the most controversial public figures in the Mideast.
He was born in 1928 in a moshav--an agricultural community in which, unlike a kibbutz, residents own their own property--and was raised by parents who were not only ardent Zionists but also rugged individualists. His father especially was contemptuous of socialism and believed in individual enterprise, raising his son to be self-reliant and physically strong in order to prepare him for the inevitable struggle to establish a Jewish state.

Sharon was perhaps best known as the organizer of what was called Commando Unit 101 and for his original ideas for the training of commando forces, which he later adapted to the training of larger, more traditional armies. During his military career he personally led many raids into Arab territory and has been criticized for his role in the destruction, in 1953, of some forty Arab homes--which he insisted he thought were empty and in which sixty-nine Arabs died. Later, in 1982, he was blamed also for allowing the Lebanese Christian Militia into a Palestinian refugee camp in which hundreds were killed.

His political career was of course indelibly colored by his military exploits. What made Sharon tick? What kind of a man was he? How did his childhood and early life condition him to become a brilliant commander, controversial soldier and an as-yet-untested leader of a small democracy which is divided both within and without? This first biography in English--frank, but balanced--will perhaps answer some of the questions raised by his career both as a soldier and politician.

Sharon

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Ex-library copy. Title page and other front matter torn out; has other library markings.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Israel Ten Years after Oslo

What went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? How has the violence changed their lives and their souls? For the last ten years, David Grossman, one of Israel's great fiction writers, has addressed these questions in a series of passionate essays and articles, writing not only as one of his country's most repsected novelists and reporters, but as a husband and father and peace activist bitterly disappointed in the leaders of both sides. Appearing for the first time in America, these pieces show us the Israeli-Palestinian conflixt from the inside and the moment. They are indispensable reading for anyone who wants to understand the roots and the results of the fighting today.

Death As a Way of Life

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Ex-library copy with typical stamps/markings 

A Biography

Biografie van de Israëlische staatsman en zionistisch leider Chaïn Weizmann (1874-1952).

Chaim Weizmann

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Ex-library copy. Torn front matter and other library markings. 

Heroes of Israel

A volume of heroic stories from Zionist history represents the collaboration of fifty of its leading political, military, and cultural figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and Yitzhak Shamir.

Lionhearts

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The jacket has some wear and tear - the book is in excellent condition 

Texas

The Life and Times 

Einstein 

Uncorrected Proof. Wear along edges of front cover, along with a prominent tear where a sticker refused to come off. Not a Beauty Contest copy, but internal text is clean and binding is perfect. Ideal book for a commute or to throw in a backpack without worrying it'll get all gagootz (cause it already has!). 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Discover the secret behind how Israel, a tiny country with the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide, is raising generations of entrepreneurs who are disrupting markets around the globe and bringing change to the world. Dubbed “Silicon Wadi,” Israel ranks third in the World Economic Forum Innovation Rating. Despite its small size, it attracts more venture capital per capita than any other country on the planet. What factors have led to these remarkable achievements, and what secrets do Israeli tech entrepreneurs know that others can learn? Tech insider Inbal Arieli goes against the common belief that Israel’s outstanding economic accomplishments are the byproduct of its technologically advanced military or the result of long-standing Jewish traditions of study and questioning. Rather, Arieli gives credit to the unique way Israelis are raised in a culture that supports creative thinking and risk taking. Growing up within a tribal-like community, Israelis experience childhoods purposely shaped by challenges and risks—in a culture that encourages and rewards chutzpah. This has helped Israelis develop the courage to pursue unorthodox, and often revolutionary, approaches to change and innovation and is the secret behind the country’s economic success. While chutzpah has given generations of Israelis the courage to break away from conventional thinking, the Israeli concept balagan—messiness in Hebrew—is at the root of how Israelis are taught to interact with the world. Instead of following strict rules, balagan fosters ambiguity, encouraging the development of the skills necessary for dealing with the unpredictability of life and business. Living with balagan provides Israelis with the opportunity to constantly practice the soft skills defined by the World Economic Forum as the Skills for the Future, as balagan promotes creativity, problem-solving, and independence—key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. By revealing the unique ways in which Israelis parent, educate and acculturate, Chutzpah offers invaluable insights and proven strategies for success to aspiring entrepreneurs, parents, executives, innovators, and policymakers.

Chutzpah

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#RealisticFiction #HistoricalFiction #Holocaust #WW2 #Allies #Jewish #Israel #British #Internment #Zionism #ConcentrationCamps #survivors #friendship #identity #redemption #history 

Arizona

A tale inspired by the post-Holocaust experience is set in an immigrant holding camp in 1945 Palestine, where four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, find healing in the bonds of friendship that are forged while recounting their losses.

Day after Night

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Signed by Leah Rabin, widow of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin.

Our Life, His Legacy

The widow of slain Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin reflects on their forty-eight years together, her husband's political career, and his place in history, including his role in the peace-making process

SIGNED—Rabin

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Amos Elon

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Understanding Israel 

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#Vintage #FirstEdition #Military #Memoir #Signed by former President of Israel Ezer Weizman on half-title page. #Hardcover #Israel #Nonfiction #Zionism


"This is the story of a miracle - how one dynamic, persuasive man with a vision, Ezer Weizman, Israel's former Minister of Defense, became a pivotal figure in the elusive search for Mideast peace. Only he could have written this highly personal, revealing account of what happened behind closed doors as mortal enemies were struggling to overcome thirty years of bitter hatred in face-to-face encounters that electrified the world." --from inside jacket.

SIGNED—The Battle for Peace

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#Vintage #Hardcover #FirstEdition #Signed by former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir #History #Biography #Zionism #Judaism #Israel

An Autobiography

SIGNED—Summing Up

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Israel Answers Its Critics

SIGNED — Who Stands Accused?

#Vintage #FirstEdition (US) #Hardcover #Political #Memoir #Signed by late Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek. Inscribed and dated by Teddy Kollek on the front free endpaper: "To Alfred Morse, best birthday wishes, Teddy Kollek March 1978." #Israel #Zionism #Judaism


A Life 

SIGNED — For Jerusalem

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Signed, published in 1977. Very Good condition. Dust jacket is Near Fine. Signed by author on front end paper. 

SIGNED—An Autobiography

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#Vintage #Nonfiction #Hardcover #Signed by both authors on half-title page. Nice dust jacket but for some damp-stain. #Israel #History #Zionism #Espionage 

The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community

SIGNED—Every Spy a Prince

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1st U.S. Edition published in 1975. Inscribed “with best wishes” by Herzog on title page and opposite by former Israel Bonds Chairman Lou Zuckerman. Unique, dual-signed copy with historical relevance.

October, 1973

SIGNED — The War of Atonement 

#Signed #Vintage #Hardcover #FirstEdition, 3rd Printing published in 1968. Original cloth binding in plastic protective sleeve. No dust jacket. Large stain along 3/4 of spine. Book itself in good condition: clean pages, sound binding. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Saul L. Zimmerman with best wishes D. Ben Gurion." #Israel #Judaism #History #Zionism

SIGNED—Israel: Years of Challenge

Inscribed by author on half-title page: “To Jonas Family with best wishes, N. Sharansky.”

The Uplifting and Historic Account of a Single Man Who Triumphed Over a Police State—And in the Process Changed it Forever

The noted Soviet Jewish dissident recounts his trial by Soviet authorities, his nine-year term in the Soviet gulag, his release and reunion with his wife and their new life in Israel

SIGNED—Fear No Evil

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Ari Shavit


This book is an Ex-Library Copy in Acceptable (Fair) Used Condition. It bears marks, stamps, labels, writing, etc. indicative of its former status. Cover wear such as scuffing may be present. The text and binding are otherwise crisp and clean, with no signs of ripping, tearing, staining, fading, discoloration, non-library writing, drawing, highlighting, underlining, etc. Wear and tear described does not negatively impact the readability of the text. See images for more details. 

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMIST Winner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today Not since Thomas L. Friedman's groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land . Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family's story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension. We meet Shavit's great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine's booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe's Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel's nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv's booming club scene and today's architects of Israel's foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country. As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today's global political landscape. Praise for My Promised Land "This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit's] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East." --Simon Schama, Financial Times "[A] must-read book." --Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times "Important and powerful . . . the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read." --Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review "Spellbinding . . . Shavit's prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear." --The Economist "One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years." --The Wall Street Journal



The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

An influential columnist from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz presents a groundbreaking examination of Israel that traces the events that led the country to its current state of conflict through the stories of everyday citizens to illuminate the importance of lesser-known historical events.

My Promised Land

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#paperback #history #Israel #Zionism #Jews #nonfiction 

Social Studies

From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time

First published in 1976, Howard M. Sachar's A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time was regarded one of the most valuable works available detailing the history of this still relatively young country. Decades later, readers can again be immersed in this monumental work.

The second edition of this volume covers topics such as the first of the Aliyahs in the 1880s; the rise of Jewish nationalism; the beginning of the political Zionist movement and, later, how the movement changed after Theodor Herzl; the Balfour Declaration; the factors that led to the Arab-Jewish confrontation; Palestine and its role both during the Second World War and after; the war of independence and the many wars that followed it over the next few decades; and the development of the Israeli republic and the many challenges it faced, both domestic and foreign, and still faces today.

This is a truly enriching and exhaustive history of a nation that holds claim to one of the most complicated and controversial histories in the world.

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Donna Rosenthal

The Israelis

Yaacov Lozowick

Right to Exist

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Controversy of Zion

Sigalit Zetouni; Jordan Miller; Anita Miller

Sharon

David Grossman; Haim Watzman (Translator)

Death As a Way of Life

Norman A. Rose

Chaim Weizmann

Michael Bar-Zohar (Editor)

Lionhearts

Ronald W. Clark

Einstein

Inbal Arieli

Chutzpah

Anita Diamant

Day after Night

Leah Rabin

SIGNED—Rabin

Amos Elon

Understanding Israel

Ezer Weizman

SIGNED—The Battle for Peace

Yitzhak Shamir

SIGNED—Summing Up

Chaim Herzog

SIGNED — Who Stands Accused?

Teddy Kollek; Amos Kollek

SIGNED — For Jerusalem

Abba Eban

SIGNED—An Autobiography

Dan Raviv; Yossi Melman

SIGNED—Every Spy a Prince

Chaim Herzog

SIGNED — The War of Atonement

David Ben-Gurion

SIGNED—Israel: Years of Challenge

Natan Sharansky

SIGNED—Fear No Evil

Ari Shavit

My Promised Land

Howard M. Sachar

A History of Israel