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Major Farran's hat
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David Cesarani |
Explores why Britain lost Palestine, linking its counterinsurgency and diplomatic strategies through the role of Roy Farran, commander of British counterterrorism squads, to the abduction of a Jewish… |
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A new voice for Israel
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Jeremy Ben-Ami |
"Many Americans who care about Israel's future are questioning whether the hard-line, uncritical stances adopted by many traditional pro-Israel advocates really serve the country's best interests ove… |
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The reckoning
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Patrick Bishop |
"One of Britain's most renowned military historians revisits a controversial murder: that of Zionist leader Avraham Stern, head of Israel's notorious Stern Gang, in Tel Aviv during WWII. Militant Zio… |
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A Jew in America
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Arthur Hertzberg |
""I became an American by refusing to assimilate," writes Arthur Hertzberg in this long-awaited memoir. Throughout his life this world-renowned rabbi, activist, author, historian, public servant, and… |
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Ben-Gurion
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St. John, Robert |
A biography of the first prime minister of Israel, with a section that presents Ben-Gurion in his own words. |
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The origins of Christian Zionism
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Donald M. Lewis |
"In this study of Lord Shaftesbury - Victorian England's greatest humanitarian and most prominent Christian Zionist - Donald M. Lewis examines why British evangelicals became fascinated with the Jews… |
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Emma Lazarus rediscovered
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Eve Merriam |
A biography of the American poet, activist for humane causes, and friend to immigrants, who wrote the words now inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. |
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Daniel Deronda
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George Eliot |
As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition o… |
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The Golda Meir story
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Margaret Davidson |
A biography of Golda Meir, whose childhood memories of Russia helped her work to establish the independent state of Israel. |
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David Ben-Gurion
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Herma Silverstein |
Surveys the life and career of the first prime minister of Israel. |
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Golda Meir
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Ann Atkins |
As a child prodigy in principles, Golda Meir has a repertoire of noble rebellion throughout her life from Midwest America to the Middle East. This resolve will bring equal pay and education to the Ar… |
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Daughter of my people
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Hazel Krantz |
Traces the life of the Hadassah women's organization's first president, who dedicated its activities to improving the living conditions of Jews in Palestine. |
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Shepherd of Jerusalem
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Dov Peretz Elkins |
A biography of the rabbi active in the Zionist movement that founded the independent Jewish state of Israel. |
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Links in the chain
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Naomi E. Pasachoff |
Presents biographical essays on individuals who have shaped Jewish history, including Hillel, Moses Mendelssohn, and Theodor Herzl. |
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The gentleman and the Jew
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Maurice Samuel |
viii, 325 p. ; 22 cm |
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Henrietta Szold
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Shulamit E. Kustanowitz |
A biography of the leader who fought to improve the lives of Jewish people. |
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Theodor Herzl, the road to Israel
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Miriam Gurko |
Follows the life of the Austro-Hungarian who became the leader of the Zionist movement to restore the Jews to their homeland. |
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Good faith and credit
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Gottlieb Hammer |
"More than a lively and perceptive memoir, this reminiscence by Gottlieb Hammer, the man who negotiated the first million-dollar bank loan for the Jewish Agency - American Section, is a compelling ac… |
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A spy for freedom
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Ida Cowen |
A biography of the woman who, during World War I, led an espionage group whose goal was to help free the Jews of Palestine from the oppression of Turkish rule. |
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Open the gates!
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Avriel, Ehud |
A personal account of the remarkable story of the Mossad - a small but intensely dedicated clandestine organization of Palestinian Jews that, for ten years, from 1938 to 1948, rivaled the accomplishm… |
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