Product Description: In late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody events as year zero of the Arab-Israeli conflict that persists today...read more

An American-born journalist who immigrated to Israel describes his compulsory service in a reserve infantry unit, detailing his role as a soldier from 1984 to 2002 and his service in conflicts with Israel's Arab neighbors.

The northern part of the Great Rift Valley, which runs some three thousand miles from Syria to Mozambique, is explored in a study that raises provocative questions about where it came from, how it has developed, and how human civilization has fared on its shores.

For many, the name of Adolf Eichmann is synonymous with the Nazi murder of six million Jews. As a perpetuator of the Final Solution he stands alongside Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler as one of history's most notorious murderers, yet ever since Hannah Arendt's seminal book, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil", there has been disagreement about the essence of Eichmann and by extension, about the definition of evil action. Was he a human monster or a petty bureaucrat? To what degree did the totalitarian organization to which he belonged absolve him and his staff from individual choice and responsibility for atrocities? This title looks at the words and actions of Eichmann and the bureaucrats he worked with in Berlin and throughout the more significant Gestapo offices in Western Europe. It claims that Hannah Arendt's thesis about the banality of evil was wrong. In chilling detail, it presents a group of people completely aware of what they were doing, people with high ideological motivation, people of initiative and dexterity who contributed far beyond what was necessary. While most of these bureaucrats sat behind desks rather than behind machine guns, there was nothing banal about the role they played in the destruction of European Jewry.

Product Description: Israel is a Jewish state in a Muslim Middle East. How can it survive in that region? This book answers this question by analyzing the dangers and threats that Israel faces today. The book also highlights an important component of Israel's strength: the endurance and the cohesion of its social fabric, which the author sees as the key to his country's survival in the Middle East...read more

The novelist offers a personal perspective on the last ten years of Israeli history, dissenting with the government's line on the Palestinians while taking the enemies of Israel to task as well. Reprint.

Presents a series of essays from the Israeli author exploring both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an attempt of understand the breakdown of the peace process begun in Oslo by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat.

A leading Israeli investigative journalist shares a series of candid, intimate portraits of men and women who, trapped in the middle of harrowing events, brutal conditions, violence, and terror, struggle--often unsuccessfully--to preserve their past, their identity, their sanity, and their hope. 20,000 first printing.

A new history of Israel presents the Holocaust as the defining event of modern Jewish history and the most important impetus for the formation of the State of Israel. Reprint.

A sociological study of the first Israelis introduces readers to the ideological, religious, and historical forces that helped fashioned the 'Sabras' into a uniquely modern people.

An Israeli lawyer who defended John Demjanjuk at his trial as a Nazi war criminal explains how he managed to clear his client of the charges and exposes a shocking international conspiracy to withhold vital evidence and make Demjanjuk a scapegoat. IP.

Product Description: This ethnography investigates the meaning of learning in the lives of ultra-orthodox Jewish women. Presenting a picture of the Gur Hassidic community in Israel, the author explores the relationship between women's literacy and their subordination...read more