The Jewish Story
vk0ib2020-09-10T20:42:45+00:00Deepen your relationship with Israel as a People and take a journey with Rabbi Mike Feuer through the most remarkable, majestic and dramatic history of any people in human history with The Jewish Story.
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
vk0ib2020-09-01T03:16:36+00:00A family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of Israel and lived through its turbulent history. A Tale of Love and Darkness is the story of a boy who grows up in war-torn Jerusalem, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. [...]
A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples by Ilan Pappe
vk0ib2020-09-01T03:03:40+00:00Ilan Pappe's book traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled region.
Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny by Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
vk0ib2020-09-01T01:21:17+00:00Modern Israel's founding fathers provided some of the boldest and most principled leadership of any nation. At a time when the political destiny of Israel is more uncertain than at any moment since its modern founding, Be Strong and of Good Courage celebrates the defining generation of leaders who took on the task of safeguarding [...]
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev
vk0ib2020-09-01T01:21:41+00:00As the State of Israel's first leader, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create a Jewish state, he thereupon took control of the Zionist movement, declared Israel’s independence, and navigated his country through wars, controversies and remarkable achievements. And yet [...]
Summing Up by Yitzhak Shamir
vk0ib2020-09-01T01:07:30+00:00A major figure in Israeli politics, Yitzhak Shamir chronicles his long career and his fervent belief in Zionism, recounting how he left Poland to join the Jewish underground of Palestine, spent years in the Mossad, and became Prime Minister of Israel.
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
vk0ib2020-08-31T23:48:51+00:00The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, are deeply rooted in [...]
Every Individual, a King: The Social and Political Thought of Ze’Ev Vladimir Jabotinsky by Raphaella Bilski Ben-Hur
vk0ib2020-09-08T22:57:32+00:00Discussion about Jabotinsky's political, social and economic thought. Analysis of his relationship to liberal democracy, social and economic policy, leadership, army and militarism, discipline and ceremony, the principle of majority rule, the individual, race, nation and humanity. Investigation of Jabotinsky's Zionist thought: the nation and the Jewish race, connection between the Jewish people and the [...]
Years of Wrath, Days of Glory by Yitzhak Ben-Ami
vk0ib2020-09-08T22:57:50+00:00Autobiography and history are combined in this chronicle of unending struggle, in the 1920s and 1930s, by the Zionist Revisionists and the Irgun Zvai Leumi to get Jews from Europe to Palestine and then to fight the British and the Arabs for independence. Some of the most interesting parts, as one might expect, have to [...]