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Nonfiction
The Para­dox of Liberation
Michael Walz­er
Nonfiction
Civ­il Disobedience:The Israeli Experience
Che­mi Ben-Noon; Baruch Gefen, trans.
Cookbook
Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking
Michael Solomonov | Steven Cook
Fiction
And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories
Yos­sel Birstein; Mar­garet Birstein, Hana Infar, and Robert Man­aster, trans.
Nonfiction
No Mis­sion Is Impos­si­ble: The Death-Defy­ing Mis­sions of the Israeli Spe­cial Forces
Michael Bar-Zohar and Nis­sim Mishal; Michael Bar-Zohar, Michael and Nathan Burstein, trans.
Nonfiction
Arab and Jew: Wound­ed Spir­its in a Promised Land
David Shipler
Children's
Under­stand­ing Israel Today: A Kid’s Guide to the Mid­dle East
Elisa Sil­ver­man
Cookbook
Mod­ern Israeli Cook­ing: 100 New Recipes for Tra­di­tion­al Classics
Danielle Oron
Nonfiction
The Gate­keep­ers: Inside Israel’s Inter­nal Secu­ri­ty Agency
Dror Moreh; Yael Schon­feld Abel, trans.; Den­nis Ross, preface
Nonfiction
Jew­ish Hon­or Courts: Revenge, Ret­ri­bu­tion, and Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust
Lau­ra Jockusch and Gabriel N. Find­er, eds.
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The Arab-Israeli Con­flict in Amer­i­can Polit­i­cal Culture
Jonathan Ryn­hold
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Gen­e­sis: Tru­man, Amer­i­can Jews, and the Ori­gins of the Arab/​Israeli Conflict
John B. Judis
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Doomed to Suc­ceed: The U.S.-Israel Rela­tion­ship from Tru­man to Obama
Den­nis Ross
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Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Con­flict: 1929
Hil­lel Cohen
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Pump­kin­flow­ers: A Sol­dier’s Story
Mat­ti Friedman
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The Def­i­n­i­tion of Anti-Semitism
Ken­neth Marcus
Nonfiction
Return to Zion: The His­to­ry of Mod­ern Israel
Eric Gart­man
Fiction
The Bus Dri­ver Who Want­ed to Be God & Oth­er Stories
Etgar Keret
Nonfiction
Israeli Life and Leisure in the 21st Century
Michaell J. Leit­ner & Sara F. Leit­ner, eds.
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Kalei­do­scope: Three Poets from Israel
Ory Bern­stein, Raquel Chal­fi & Shi­mon Adaf
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