Klein Halevi, Yossi
Summary: "Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli's powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of "the enemy." In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 KLEFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of the conflict between Israel and certain Arab countries that have opposed Israel's existence since the country was formed in 1948 in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.04 FIRKessler, Oren
Summary: Spring 1936. The Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since. The revolt to end Zionism had instead crushed the Arabs themselves,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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Summary: "Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 THRSummary: When the residents of Budrus learn that the Israeli army plans to build the Separation Barrier through their town, cutting them off from neighboring Palestinian villages and uprooting their precious olive groves, they decide to organize. Under the leadership of Ayed Morrar, Palestinian men of all political factions come together to wage an unarmed struggle to preserve their lands. Victory seems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BUDBird, Kai.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 BIRD, KAI BIRShipler, David K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SHIMorris, Benny
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 MORDavidi, Guy
Summary: Bil'in villager Emad Burnat documents the Palestinian struggle when he buys a camera to record the birth of his youngest son and he then films the turmoil and destruction happening around him as his village is threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2013
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Shapiro, Delilah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metrobooks 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 956.94 SHAFriedman, Thomas L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1990
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Summary: "A Woman on Her Own, the latest book by Israeli writer Ilana Hammerman, is an episodic book, marrying stories of protest and more personal interludes on larger moral issues at play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Though Hammerman is an activist, thereader will not find her arguing with Israeli settlers, tearing down blockades, or getting arrested. Hers is a much more personal, moving, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.04 HAMGrossman, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.953 GROAllen, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 ALLBecker, Jillian
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956 BECDershowitz, Alan M.
Summary: One of America's leading attorneys offers an impassioned defense of the state of Israel, arguing that, although the country is not perfect, it remains the only outpost of democracy in the Middle East, answering critics who accuse Israel of being an imperialist power and documenting the facts about the nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DERSummary: This remarkable story from the past is especially timely today. Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this film retraces the 800 years in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019