6,977円 Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated pogroms of the Civil War era. A two year voyag...

3,000円 Am 14. Mai 1948 endete das Britische Mandat über Palästina, und David Ben Gurion unterzeichnete noch am selben Tag die israelische Unabhängigkeitserklärung. Unmittelbar darauf erklärten die Nachbarstaaten Israel den Krieg. Die Zukunft des jungen Staates schien mehr als ungewiss.

5,194円 Founded in 1981, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Yet no in-depth translation of its ideological corpus exists. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of the ...

164円 The Maccabees were a rebel army which seized control of Judea and ruled from 164 63 B.C. The Maccabeean rule started after they revolted against the Seleucid Empire, which ordered them to become Hellenic pagans. Hanukkah celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees ...

3,980円 The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. Though they grew into the backbone of lucrative citrus and wine industries of mandate Palestine and Israel, absorb...

5,476円 After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to leave was baldly practical: Israel paid for the...

16,106円 This multidisciplinary study takes a fresh look at Judean history and biblical literature in the late fourth and third centuries BCE. In a major reappraisal of this era, the contributions to this volume depict it as one in which critical changes took place. Until recently, the period from Alexand...

4,679円 In this fascinating book, Seymour (Sy) Gitin recounts his life’s journey, from his childhood in 1940s Buffalo, New York, to a storied career as an archaeologist working and living in Israel. Over the course of his life, Sy served as a rabbi in Los Angeles and as US Air Force Chaplain, starred in ...

2,254円 When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict? Italian journalist ...

1,408円 "Every day," writes Rabbi Meir Kahane, "the Arabs of Israel move closer to becoming a majority. Are we [Israel] committed to national suicide? Should we allow demography, geography, and democracy to push Israel closer to the abyss? According to Rabbi Kahane, Israel can only be sustained by a perm...

1,511円 'Original and illuminating ... what a good book this is' Jonathan Dimbleby 'A love letter to the people of the Old City' Jerusalem Post In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn't reflect the r...

1,493円 The History of Jerusalem This is a nonfiction book. It is designed to provide information about the country of Palestine on what is going on since 1947. The history of Jerusalem is the history of a living city perhaps unlike that of any other in the world. Jerusalem (al-Quds in Arabic) represents...