Category: Israel

May 14, 2013

The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography ** (of 4)

In the 1940s a Bedouin searching caves above the western shore of the Dead Sea discovered urns with scrolls inside. He knew right away they...

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August 15, 2011

To the End of the Land by David Grossman **** (of 4)

Ora is worried to the point of illness that her son who has been called up by the Israeli Army for a special operation is...

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July 2, 2011

The Eichmann Trial by Deborah Lipstadt *** (of 4)

In 2001 Deborah Lipstadt was brought to trial in Britain for libeling by David Irving in Britain after she described him as a Holocaust denier. ...

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January 26, 2011

Middle East Water Management Under Conditions of Scarcity

ES591: Middle East Water Management Under Conditions of Scarcity – Click here for the syllabus

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October 6, 2010

Exodus by Leon Uris ** (of 4)

Still singed by Holocaust crematoria, Jewish rebels fight to throw off the yoke of British imperialism in Palestine. This is a book that launched a...

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July 20, 2010

See Under: Love by David Grossman ** (of 4)

I wish I could have followed the story of Momik, a nine-year-old son of Holocaust survivors trying to make sense of the adults who have...

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July 15, 2010

A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev *** (of 4)

The story of the use of homing pigeons during Israel’s War for Independence, the breed of people that train and keep them, and a moving...

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July 14, 2010

Bethlehem Road Murder by Batya Gur ** (of 4)

At the height of the second intifada, with tensions between Israelis and Palestinians at the ignition point, a Jewish girl of Sephardic origin is found...

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June 29, 2010