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    King of the Class
    Gila Green
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: Some Day

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterNew Ves­sel Press, an inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ing house found­ed in NYC last year, is about to release their first six titles. Spe­cial­iz­ing in…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
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    Mossad: The Great­est Mis­sions of the Israeli Secret Service
    Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
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    Israel: Repair­ing the World
    Rabbi Stephen Wise
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    Cin­e­ma and Zion­ism: The Devel­op­ment of a Nation Through Film
    Ariel L. Feldestein; Merav Pagis, trans.
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    Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s His­to­ry Through the Lives of its Fore­most Leaders
    Jack L. Schwartzwald
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    Intro­duc­ing Inspec­tor Avra­ham Avraham

    Today on the Vis­it­ing Scribe, D. A. Mis­hani con­tin­ues with his series ​“The Mys­tery of the Hebrew Detec­tive,” where he has been inves­ti­gat­ing why it’s so dif­fi­cult to…
    D. A. Mishani
    May 31, 2013
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    Can a Police­man be an Israeli Hero?

    Today on the Vis­it­ing Scribe, D. A. Mis­hani con­tin­ues with his series ​“The Mys­tery of the Hebrew Detec­tive,” where he has been inves­ti­gat­ing why it’s so dif­fi­cult to…
    D. A. Mishani
    May 30, 2013
    Essay

    Detec­tive Fic­tion and the Zion­ist Cul­tur­al Revolution

    Today on the Vis­it­ing Scribe, D. A. Mis­hani con­tin­ues with his series ​“The Mys­tery of the Hebrew Detec­tive,” where he has been inves­ti­gat­ing why it’s so…
    D. A. Mishani
    May 29, 2013
    Essay

    The Mys­tery of the Hebrew Detec­tive: The Inves­ti­ga­tion Begins

    Yes­ter­day, D. A. Mis­hani won­dered why it’s so dif­fi­cult to write a detec­tive in Hebrew. His first detec­tive nov­el, The Miss­ing File, was pub­lished by…
    D. A. Mishani
    May 28, 2013
    Essay

    D. A. Mis­hani and the Mys­tery of the Hebrew Detective

    D. A. Mis­hani is an Israeli crime writer, edi­tor, and lit­er­ary schol­ar, spe­cial­iz­ing in the his­to­ry of detec­tive fic­tion. His first detec­tive nov­el, The Miss­ing…
    D. A. Mishani
    May 27, 2013
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    God, Jews and the Media: Reli­gion and Israel’s Media
    Yoel Cohen
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    Spies Against Armaged­don: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars
    Dan Raviv & Yossi Melman
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    Yoni’s Last Bat­tle: The Res­cue at Entebbe, 1976
    Iddo Netanyahu
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    State of Fail­ure: Yass­er Arafat, Mah­moud Abbas, and the Unmak­ing of the Pales­tin­ian State
    Jonathan Schanz­er
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    The Peace Puz­zle: Amer­i­ca’s Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989 – 2011
    Daniel C. Kurtzer, Scott B. Lasensky, & Shibley Z. Telhami
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