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  • Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine

    by Ran Aaronsohn ...
    Series series Geographical Perspectives on the Human Past
    It is commonly accepted that the initial Jewish resettlement of the Holy Land in the late nineteenth century laid the foundations of the State of Israel. But what were the key elements of that process, and who implemented it? What did the new enterprise look like, and what was its significance? These important yet often poorly understood issues are reconstructed and analyzed in this unique study. ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • The Holocaust Industry

    Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

    by Norman G. Finkelstein ...
    A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust for personal and political gain—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate.“The most controversial book of the year.” —GuardianThis iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Algerian Chronicles

    by Albert Camus ...
    More than 50 years after independence, Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958—the year the war caused the collapse of the Fourth French Republic—it is one of Albert Camus’ most political works: an exploration of his commitment to Algeria. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Jews and Power

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    **From an eminent scholar of Yiddish literature and of Jewish history, a bold reconceptualization of the Jewish relationship to power and powerlessness“[A] brilliant analysis. . . certainly a book for our times—courageous, honest, and cogent.” —Jewish Book CouncilPart of the Jewish Encounter series**Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • When General Grant Expelled the Jews

    by Jonathan D. Sarna ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book AwardsA riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent American Jewish community, and on the American political process.On December 17, 1862, just weeks before ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Jewish Writings

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Although Hannah Arendt is not primarily known as a Jewish thinker, she probably wrote more about Jewish issues than any other topic. When she was in her mid-twenties and still living in Germany, Arendt wrote about the history of German Jews as a people living in a land that was not their own. In 1933, at the age of twenty-six, she fled to France, where she helped to arrange for German and eastern ... Read more

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  • Emancipation

    How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance

    by Michael Goldfarb ...
    The first popular history of the Emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a transformation that was startling to those who lived through it and continues to affect the world today.Freed from their ghettos, Jews ushered in a second renaissance. Within a century Marx, Freud, and Einstein created revolutions in politics, human science, and physics that continue to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A History of the Jews in the Modern World

    by Howard M. Sachar ...
    The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A History of Zionism

    From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel

    by Walter Laqueur ...
    From one of the most distinguished historians of our time comes the definitive general history of the Zionist movement. ... Read more

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  • "Not by Might, Nor by Power"

    The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism

    by Moshe Menuhin ...
    Series Book 22 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice.Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected orthodoxy while remaining dedicated ... Read more

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  • On Compromise and Rotten Compromises

    by Avishai Margalit ...
    A searching examination of the moral limits of political compromiseWhen is political compromise acceptable—and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable ... Read more

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  • Why Are Jews Liberals?

    by Norman Podhoretz ...
    From the bestselling author of World War IV, a brilliant investigation of a central question in American politics and culture.During his career as a neoconservative thinker, Norman Podhoretz has been asked no question more often than “Why are so many Jews liberals?” In this provocative book he sets out to solve this puzzle. He first offers a fascinating account of anti-Semitism in the West to show ... Read more

    $9.99 USD