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Birthright Alumni Reading List Nonfiction 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War Benny Morris Nonfiction A Tale of Love and Darkness Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans. Nonfiction Aliya: Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel Liel Leibovitz Nonfiction Breaking Bread in Galilee: A Culinary Journey into the Promised Land Abbie Rosner Nonfiction City Guide Tel Aviv Dalit Nemirovsky Nonfiction City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa Adam LeBor Nonfiction Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel Daniel Gordis Nonfiction Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine Donna Robinson Divine Nonfiction Future Tense: Jews, Judaism and Israel in the Twenty-First Century Jonathan Sacks Nonfiction How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less Sarah Glidden Nonfiction If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dispatches from an Anxious State Daniel Gordis Nonfiction Israel is Real Rich Cohen Nonfiction Israel: An Introduction Barry Rubin Nonfiction Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab Israeli Conflict Amy Dockser Marcus Nonfiction Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide Jeffrey Goldberg Nonfiction Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Michael B. Oren Nonfiction Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City Maoz Azaryahu Nonfiction Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity Leonard Saxe; Barry Chazan Nonfiction The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land Donna Rosenthal Nonfiction The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace Dennis Ross Nonfiction The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism Orit Rozin Nonfiction Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism Shaul Kelner Nonfiction Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation Martin Fletcher Nonfiction What Israel Means to Me Alan Dershowitz, ed. Nonfiction Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel's Reform Kibbutzim William F.S. Miles Visual Arts Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art Susan Tumarkin Goodman Visual Arts Israel Though My Lens: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist David Rubinger with Ruth Corman Visual Arts Paul Goldman: Press Photographer, 1943-1961 Shlomo Arad Nonfiction Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance Judith Brin Ingber, ed. Nonfiction Serial No. 3817131 Rachel Papo; Charles H. Traub, fwd. Cookbook The Book of New Israeli Food: A Culinary Journey Janna Gur; Eilon Paz, photographer Visual Arts The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Israel Museum Curators Fiction A Book That Was Lost S.Y Agnon; Alan Mintz and Anne Golomb Hoffman, eds. Fiction A Pigeon and a Boy Evan Fallenberg, Meir Shalev Fiction Accidents Yael Hedaya; Jessica Cohen, trans. Fiction Beaufort Ron Leshem; Evan Fallenberg, trans. Fiction Day After Night Anita Diamant Fiction Exit Wounds Rutu Modan Fiction Friendly Fire A.B. Yehoshua Fiction Good Heart Alan Newman Fiction Homesick Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans. Fiction If You Awaken Love Emuna Elon Fiction Light Fell Evan Fallenberg Fiction Murder in Jerusalem Batya Gur Fiction Our Holocaust Amir Gutfreund; Jessica Cohen, trans. Fiction Out of the Depths & Other Stories Yosef Haim Brenner; David Patterson and Ezra Spicehandler, trans. Fiction Rhyming Life and Death Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans. Fiction Suddenly, a Knock at the Door Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, trans. Fiction Tel Aviv Short Stories Shelly Goldman and Joanna Yehiel, ed. Fiction The Confessions of Noa Weber Gail Hareven; Dalya Bilu, trans. Fiction The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale Haim Sabato Fiction The People of Forever Are Not Afraid Shani Boianjiu Fiction The Tenth Song Naomi Ragen Fiction To the End of the Land David Grossman, Jessica Cohen Poetry Flowers of Perhaps Ra’hel; Robert Friend with Shimon Sandbank, trans. Poetry Hear O Lord: Poems from the Disturbances of 2000-2009 Eliaz Cohen; Larry Barak, trans. Poetry Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch Dahlia Ravikovitch; Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, trans. Poetry Selected Poetry and Drama Lea Goldberg; Rachel Tzvia Back, T. Carmi, trans. Poetry These Mountains: Selected Poems of Rivka Miriam Rivka Miriam; Linda Stern Zisquit, trans. Poetry With This Night Lea Goldberg; Annie Kantar, trans.
Nonfiction Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity Leonard Saxe; Barry Chazan
Fiction Out of the Depths & Other Stories Yosef Haim Brenner; David Patterson and Ezra Spicehandler, trans.
Fiction Suddenly, a Knock at the Door Etgar Keret; Nathan Englander, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra Silverston, trans.
Poetry Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch Dahlia Ravikovitch; Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, trans.
