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  • Before Golda: Manya Shochat

    by Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Sandra Shurin ...
    “Manya Shochat was a truly unusual woman, a figure of extreme complexity who might have come out of a nineteenth-century Russian novel. In her life’s story we find a full enactment — rare in one person — of the main qualities, some of them contradictory, which played such a prominent role in the history of Zionism. She was incredibly tough and unbelievably charitable; sentimental and fearless; a ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

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    A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

    by Daniel Gordis ...
    Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year AwardThe first comprehensive yet accessible political history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.In the landscape of Middle East history, Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world’s attention, aroused its ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Lion's Gate

    On the Front Lines of the Six Day War

    by Steven Pressfield ...
    “A brilliant look into the psyche of combat. Where he once took us into the Spartan line of battle at Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield now takes us into the sands of the Sinai, the alleys of Old Jerusalem, and into the hearts and souls of soldiers winning a spectacularly improbable victory against daunting odds.”—General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army, ret.; author of My Share of the TaskJune 5, 1967 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Ben-Gurion

    A Political Life

    by Shimon Peres, David Landau ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIsrael’s current president gives us a dramatic and revelatory biography of Israel’s founding father and first prime minister.Shimon Peres was in his early twenties when he first met David Ben-Gurion. Although the state that Ben-Gurion would lead through war and peace had not yet declared its precarious independence, the “Old Man,” as he was called even then, was ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Maimonides

    by David Yellin & Israel Abrahams ...
    Moses ben-Maimon, commonly referred to as Maimonides, was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and scholar of the Torah during the 12th century. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish philosophers of the Medieval Era. Born in Cordoba Spain in 1135, Maimonides and his family were forced out Cordoba by the conquering Almohads. Maimonides briefly lived in Morocco, and then settled in Egypt. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Gatekeepers

    Inside Israel's Internal Security Agency

    by Dror Moreh, Dennis Ross ...
    Translated by Yael Schonfeld Abel ...
    The companion to the Oscar-nominated documentary, an unparalleled look inside Israel’s security establishment.Imagine the following situation: You have just received a tip that six suicide bombers are making their way into the heart of Israel’s major cities, each one to a different city, to set off an explosion in the most crowded centers of population. How far would you go to stop the attack? How ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • 1967

    Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East

    by Tom Segev ...
    "A marvelous achievement . . . Anyone curious about the extraordinary six days of Arab-Israeli war will learn much from it." — The EconomistTom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in 1967—a number-one bestseller in Hebrew—he brings his masterful skills to the watershed year when six days of war reshaped ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • No Room for Small Dreams

    Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel

    by Shimon Peres ...
    In 1934, eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust. Few back then would have predicted that this young man would eventually become one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. Peres would indeed go on to serve the new state as prime minister, president, foreign ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle

    Israeli Lives

    by Igal Sarna ...
    "Throughout my life as a journalist," writes Igal Sarna in his preface, "I have written about Israeli traumas and have seen how new lives are built on the ruins. How a new land sprouts out from a charred ground zero." In this striking collection of essays, Sarna taps his powers as an acclaimed investigative journalist to uncover the fascinating, wrenching experiences of Israeli men and women ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History

    by David Biale ...
    To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power.The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • By Blood and Fire

    July 22, 1946: The Attack On Jerusalem's King David Hotel

    by Thurston Clarke ...
    On July 22, 1946 six members of the Irgun, a Jewish underground group headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, entered the basement of Jerusalem's King David Hotel and planted seven milk churns filled with explosives underneath the wing housing the headquarters of the British Mandatory Government of Palestine. The ensuing explosion killed ninety-one Britons, Arabs, and Jews, in ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Zionist Paradox

    Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity

    by Yigal Schwartz ...
    Translated by Michal Sapir ...
    Series series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies
    Many contemporary Israelis suffer from a strange condition. Despite the obvious successes of the Zionist enterprise and the State of Israel, tension persists, with a collective sense that something is wrong and should be better. This cognitive dissonance arises from the disjunction between “place” (defined as what Israel is really like) and “Place” (defined as the imaginary community comprised of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD