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Eyewitness Guide Jerusalem & the Holy Land
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 304 PAGES
Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of Israel and Western Jordan. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations.
(ISR46, $25.00)
In the Land of Israel
Amos Oz
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 1993 PAPER 275 PAGES
In this compelling volume first published in 1983, Israeli novelist Amoz Oz interviewed dozens of his fellow countrymen from all walks of life. A passionate, candid and diverse portrait of a people and their hopes, fears and prejudices.
(ISR03, $14.00)
The Israelis, Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
Donna Rosenthal
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 2005 PAPER 480 PAGES
An entertaining and readable portrait of the cultural, ethnic and religious diversity of the modern Israeli people. While terrorism and relations with Palestine are covered, Rosenthal also focuses on internal conflict and differences in the land, such as those between Ashkenazis and Sephardis, between Israeli Arabs and European Jewish settlers, and between the conservative and the secular.
(ISR53, $16.00)
Israel, Palestine, Holy Land Map
Freytag & Berndt
2008 MAP
This up-to-date map covers Israel, Palestine and the Holy Land in detail at a scale of 1:150,000. It includes a booklet with an index, descriptions of 10 top sights and a street plan of Jerusalem's Old City. One Side. 43x29 inches.
(ISR09, $14.95)
Jerusalem Map
Borch Maps
A fold-out street map of Jerusalem, with an inset of the old city in more detail.
(ISR13, $7.95)
Tel Aviv Map
MapLink
A detailed city map of Tel Aviv.
(ISR40, $12.95)
Insight Guide Israel
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This lavishly illustrated guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions.
(ISR01, $23.99)
The Holy Land, An Oxford Archaeological Guide
Jerome Murphy O'Connor
GUIDEBOOK
Half of this indispensable, authoritative guide is devoted to the Roman temples, Byzantine synagogues and other monuments -- Christian, Jewish and Muslim -- of Jerusalem itself.
(ISR12, $37.95)
A History of Modern Israel
Colin Shindler
HISTORY
Shindler charts the tumultuous foundation and course of the modern state of Israel over the last 60 years in this balanced and lucid account.
(ISR65, $23.99)
Aliya, Three Generations of American-Jewish Immigration to Israel
Liel Leibovitz
RELIGION
A well-researched and deeply personal examination of the spiritual and psychological motivations of American Jews who immigrate to Israel.
(ISR55, $14.95)
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas Friedman
HISTORY
An illuminating and heartfelt exploration of the complex Middle East. Pulitzer Prize winner Friedman provides a personal and a scholarly perspective on the roots of the conflict.
(MDE03, $17.00)
Homeland, The Illustrated History of the State of Israel
Marv Wolfman
HISTORY
Depicting the history of Israel from biblical Abraham to the present, this sophisticated, four-color graphic adaptation is academically grounded, guiding readers through highlights in historical detail and from Israel's world view.
(ISR59, $21.95)
Jerusalem, City of Longing
Simon Goldhill
HISTORY
Goldhill focuses on Jerusalem as a living city, organizing the book into seven walking tours, one for each day of the week - although, as he reminds the reader, "in Jerusalem everyone will encourage you to take the Sabbath off."
(ISR63, $18.95)
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
Karen Armstrong
RELIGION
A popular history by the author of "A History of God." Armstrong tackles big subjects -- and this book is no exception. It's a comprehensive, concise portrait of the city over the last 5,000 years.
(ISR10, $18.00)
Judaism, A Very Short Introduction
Norman Solomon
RELIGION
Succinctly sketching the history, religious traditions and practice of Judaism.
(REL38, $11.95)
O Jerusalem
Dominique Lapierre
Larry Collins
HISTORY
A new edition of the dramatic history of the siege of Jerusalem during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, as told through the personal stories of Jews, Arabs and Brits.
(ISR11, $18.00)
Raid On The Sun, Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb
Rodger W. Claire
HISTORY
Based on interviews with surviving pilots and planners, this is a fast-paced of Operation Babylon, the 1981 Israeli air strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor.
(ISR54, $15.95)
The Case for Israel
Alan M. Dershowitz
HISTORY
A prominent defense attorney, Dershowitz uses the form of a legal brief for this confrontational survey of the politics and policies of Israel.
(ISR56, $12.95)
The Gifts of the Jews
Thomas Cahill
HISTORY
Cahill brings to life the ancient Hebrews and their contribution to modern life and thought in this second volume on The Making of the Ancient World.
(MDE113, $16.00)
The Israel-Arab Reader
Barry Rubin
Walter Laqueur
HISTORY
Organized chronologically, this newly revised primer includes speeches, letters, articles, timelines, and reports dealing with the continuing conflict in the Middle East.
(ISR62, $18.00)
The Story of Israel
Martin Gilbert
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A commemorative slipcased edition of Gilbert's balanced, authoritative and marvelously well illustrated chronicle of the nation of Israel.
(ISR66, $45.00)
Walking the Bible, A Photographic Journey
Bruce Feiler
RELIGION
Color photographs and accompanying vignettes capture the people and places of Feiler's remarkable odyssey through the biblical lands of Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Turkey.
(MDE94, $32.50)
Israel, Past and Present
D. Bahat
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Ingenious overlaid illustrations on acetate show Holy Land sites and monuments as they look today and as they did when they were first constructed in antiquity.
(ISR44, $22.50)
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A family saga and portrait, Oz writes of growing up in Jerusalem in the 1940s, his family's origins and his life as a novelist and commentator. Big in scope, A Tale of Love and Darkness is, in part, the story of Israel and its people.
(ISR45, $16.00)
Abraham, A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
Bruce Feiler
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Feiler mixes travel, history and faith, focusing on the historical Abraham as the father of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
(MDE79, $12.95)
God, A Biography
Jack Miles
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner in the category of biography -- and a biography it is: a marvelous, demanding and risky look at the development of God (the man and the idea).
(ISR18, $16.00)
I Saw Ramallah
Mourid Barghouti
Edward W. Said
Ahdaf Soueif
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An evocative and powerful memoir, focused on the author's return to the West Bank after 30 years, a place utterly changed and still at the center of the devastating conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
(MDE73, $12.95)
Israel Through My Lens, Sixty Years as a Photojournalist
David Rubinger
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The compelling autobiography of Israel's preeminent photojournalist, illustrated with his most memorable images. With 129 illustrations, 46 in full color.
(ISR64, $35.00)
Exodus
Leon Uris
LITERATURE
A blockbuster novel, this book is mandatory reading for its sweeping overview of Israel and Palestine.
(ISR05, $7.99)
Only Yesterday
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
LITERATURE
Israeli Nobel Laureate Agnon's masterpiece here appears in English translation. First published in 1945, the novel tells of a man who immigrates to Palestine at the beginning of the century, when many Jewish idealists were returning to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times.
(MDE139, $29.95)
The Book of Abraham
Marek Halter
LITERATURE
Widely celebrated, this riveting family saga traces the tumultuous history of a scroll through 19 centuries of European Jewish history.
(ISR52, $14.95)
In a Desert Land, Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan
Neil Folberg
NATURAL HISTORY
A stunning collection of photographs of the desert Middle East, including the Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem.
(JRD06, $49.95)
Birds of the Middle East
R.F. Porter
P. Schiermacker-Hansen
S. Christensen
FIELD GUIDE
An outstanding guide to 700 species of the birds in the region from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Cyprus.
(MDE17, $40.00)
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