Leila Farsakh provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of Palestinian labour flows to Israel. Highlighting the interdependence between Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land and the use of Palestinian labour, she shows how migration has been the result of evolving dynamics o[...]
Providing the first in-depth intellectual and organizational mapping of the single state idea's recent resurgence in Palestine/Israel, this book enquires into its nature as a phenomenon of resistance, as well as into its potential as a counterhegemonic force in the making against the processes of Zi[...]
Women's military service in Israel presents a compelling case study to explore the meaning of gendered citizenship. Lomsky-Feder and Sasson-Levy compellingly argue that women's mandatory military service during an active ongoing violent conflict, occurring at a formative age, becomes an initiation p[...]
Colonialism has three foundational concerns - violence, territory, and population control - all of which rest on racialist discourse and practice. Placing the Zionist project in Israel/Palestine within the context of settler colonialism reveals strategies and goals behind the region's rules of gover[...]
Frequently interviewed in the American news media, well known to viewers of programs such as Nightline and Face the Nation, Benjamin Netanyahu is one of Israel's best-known leaders. In this evocative and meticulously researched book, five years in the making, he traces the origins, history and polit[...]
Personal and Passionate Reflections on the Land and Its People
""The Mediterranean landscape, the exuberance of the Israelis, the way politics is a matter of life and death there-all these things beguiled me.""
-Erica Jong, author
""What does Israel mean to me? Courage. The Israelis have [...]
"As always when Israel needs to be defended. Alan Dershowitz speaks with great passion and personal courage. " -- Elie Wiesel "This is a compelling book that unmasks the dangerous revisionism that distorts the real Israel.[...]
Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future? The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether they ought [...]
The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity.
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Triumph of Hope From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel Now available in English, here is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, where she was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing choice ever [...]
Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument with hard evidence. Written in Alan Dershowitz's characteristic hard-hitting style, The Case for Israel defends Israel and its basic right to exist, to protect its citizens from terrorism and to protect it[...]
The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israela s rights, supported by indisputable evidence. * Presents a passionate look at what Israela s accusers and detractors are saying about this war--torn country.* Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argu[...]
From the creator of the number one business blog comes a powerful exploration of how, and why, businesses had better be blogging: "Naked Conversations". According to experts Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, blogs offer businesses something that has long been lacking in their communication with custome[...]
In "Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel," Yaron Shemer articulates the modalities through which Mizrahi (Oriental-Jewish or Arab-Jewish) films employ narratives, characters, and space to glean ethnic identities and, often, to redraw ethnic boundaries. The book ma[...]
Soldier, sailor, prisoner of war, andspy, Israel Potter's lively career leads toencounters with historic figuressuch asBen Franklin, John Paul Jones, andGeorge III. Based on the memoirs of a Revolutionary War veteran, this novel was acclaimed by "The Village Voice" as "hilarious, tender, expressive.[...]
Was the Red Flag Flying There? examines the Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict through the lens of Marxist politics. Joel Beinin asks how the proposal to partition Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state--a solution endorsed by international consensus in 1947-49--became an obscure and even unthinka[...]
Starting with an endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism (that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the church) this book argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity.[...]
In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after[...]
In a work that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives startling evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus who is described as the 'Suffering Servant' in recently published fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Messiah bef[...]