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    Cover of Tel-Aviv, the First Century. Visions, Designs, Actualities
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    Tel-Aviv, the First Cen­tu­ry. Visions, Designs, Actualities
    Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen, eds.
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    Jerusalem: Chron­i­cles from the Holy City
    Guy Delisle
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    Princess or Pris­on­er?: Jew­ish Women in Jerusalem, 1840 – 1914
    Margalit Shilo
    Cover of Israeli Folk Narratives: Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity
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    Israeli Folk Nar­ra­tives: Set­tle­ment, Immi­gra­tion, Ethnicity
    Haya Bar-Itzhak
    Cover of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-semitism and the Abuse of History
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    Beyond Chutz­pah: On the Mis­use of Anti-semi­tism and the Abuse of History
    Norman G. Finkelstein
    Cover of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
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    The Acci­den­tal Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Set­tle­ments, 1967 – 1977
    Gershom Gorenberg
    Cover of The Birth of Surrogacy in Israel
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    The Birth of Sur­ro­ga­cy in Israel
    D. Kelly Weisberg
    Cover of Selected Poetry and Drama
    Poet­ry
    Select­ed Poet­ry and Drama
    Lea Goldberg; Rachel Tzvia Back, T. Carmi, trans.
    Essay

    Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading

    JT Wald­man co-authored and illus­trat­ed the new graph­ic nov­el Not the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me with writer and fre­quent David Let­ter­man guest Har­vey Pekar. Read…
    JT Wald­man
    July 5, 2012
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    Book Cov­er of the Week: The Peo­ple of For­ev­er Are Not Afraid

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterShani Boian­jiu, the youngest recip­i­ent ever of the Nation­al Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 Award, for which she was cho­sen by Nicole…
    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    July 3, 2012
    Essay

    My Pekar Years

    JT Wald­man is the author ofNot the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me and Megillat Esther. Vis­it his offi­cial web­sitehere. He will be be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish…
    JT Wald­man
    July 2, 2012
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    Not the Israel My Par­ents Promised Me
    Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman
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    Israel: An Introduction
    Barry Rubin
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    Zion­ism: A Brief History
    Michael Brenner; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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    Where God Was Born
    Bruce Feiler
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    The Book of Telling: Trac­ing the Secret of My Father’s Lives
    Sharona Muir
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