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Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage, and the very different lives of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, and her family. As Deronda uncovers the long-hidden secret of his own parentage, Eliot's moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a...
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Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"From serving as the Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker to penning articles for the New York Times, Milton Viorst has dedicated his career to studying the Middle East. Now, in this new book, Viorst examines the evolution of Zionism, from its roots by serving as a cultural refuge for Europe's Jews, to the cover it provides today for Israel's exercise of control over millions of Arabs in occupied territories. Beginning with the shattering...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, the book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya -- the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Dvora Hacohen offers the authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. A global humanitarian, Szold promoted refugee assistance, immigrant education in her native Baltimore, and poverty alleviation in Palestine, inspiring generations of activists. With a foreword by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"--
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. In this book, he presents an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Dershowitz takes a close look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country. He accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry...
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W Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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"One man holds the key to finding the ark of the covenant. In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Rebecca Soloman leads a team deep into the Ethiopian desert to hunt the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. But Islamic fundamentalists fear that the Ark's discovery will compel Israel to rebuild Soloman's temple on the very site of their own holy mosque in Jerusalem. They immediately dispatch Ismael, their most...
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Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"We came into their valley at dawn." So begins this taut roller-coaster of a novel. From three vastly different points of view, Alison Pick relates the same vivid and rivetting story of one tranformative year. That year is 1921, and a band of young Jewish pioneers, many escaping violent homelands, have set out to realize a utopian dream--the founding of a kibbutz--on a patch of land that will later become Israel. Writing with a tightly controlled...
17) Chaim Weizmann
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Chelsea House Publishers
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[1988]
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English
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Presents a biography of the leader who worked to establish a national homeland for Jews in Palestine and served as Israel's first president in 1949.
18) Black cross
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English
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In World War II two Allied agents--an American chemist and a German Jew--are sent to Germany to destroy a secret laboratory manufacturing nerve gas. As the laboratory is located in a concentration camp the Jewish inmates will have to die as well. By the author of Spandau Phoenix.
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Yale University Press
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English
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The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber. An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments-such as his sudden abandonment by his mother when he was a child of three-Mendes-Flohr shows how this foundational...