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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 An Intentional Detour Earlier this week, Daniel Gordis wrote about how ideas and the books in which they are expressed change history and about the discourse surrounding Israel as… Daniel Gordis August 27, 2012
Essay Ideas Do Matter In his last post, Daniel Gordis wrote about the discourse surrounding Israel as a conflict of ideas about the nation-state. Daniel is blogging here all week for Jewish… Daniel Gordis August 22, 2012
Essay The Nation-State Daniel Gordis, recipient of the National Jewish Book Award and Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem,… Daniel Gordis August 20, 2012
Nonfiction American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, eds.
Children’s A Promise Fulfilled: Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion and the Creation of the State of Israel Howard Greenfeld
Nonfiction The “Bergson Boys” and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy Judith Tydor Baumel
Nonfiction Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience From Johannesburg to Jerusalem Hirsh Goodman
