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Israel

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If a Place Can Make You Cry: Dis­patch­es from an Anx­ious State
Daniel Gordis
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Mur­der in Jerusalem
Batya Gur
Cover of A Circle of Smiles: A Story About Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel’s Leading Organization in the Field of Disability
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A Cir­cle of Smiles: A Sto­ry About Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel’s Lead­ing Orga­ni­za­tion in the Field of Disability
Sylvia Rouss
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What’s the Buzz: Hon­ey for a Sweet New Year
Allison Ofanansky; Eliyahu Alpern, illus.
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One Hun­dred Years of Kib­butz Life
Michal Palgi and Shulamit Reinharz, eds..
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The Anato­my of Israel’s Survival
Hirsh Goodman
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Broth­ers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena
Jerold S. Auerbach
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This Burn­ing Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Trans­formed Israeli-Pales­tin­ian Conflict
Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin
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Ein­stein Before Israel: Zion­ist Icon or Iconoclast?
Ze’ev Rosenkranz
Cover of On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron: The Excursionists and the Narrow Gauge Railroad From Jaffa to Jerusalem
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On Char­i­ots with Hors­es of Fire and Iron: The Excur­sion­ists and the Nar­row Gauge Rail­road From Jaf­fa to Jerusalem
Anthony S. Travis
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Anti­semitism: A History
Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy, eds.
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Myths, Illu­sions, and Peace: Find­ing a New Direc­tion for Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East
Den­nis Ross
David Makovsky
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Find­ing Home and Home­land: Jew­ish Youth and Zion­ism in the After­math of the Holocaust
Avi­noam J. Patt
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The Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel: 1948 – 1967
Leslie Stein
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Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
Shimon Peres with David Landau
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