Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (Updated in 2008)
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A panorama of Israeli diversity" (Los Angeles Times) this is a vibrant, internationally acclaimed portrait of contemporary Israeli society. Isra...
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In the Land of Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israe...
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ” —Miami Herald In vivid and graceful pr...
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Out of Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeate...
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The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Remarkably insightful . . . A groundbreaking revision that deserves to reframe the entire debate . . . It soars."—The New York Times Book Review...
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The Crisis of Zionism
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel."—President Bill Clinton "A probing, courageous, and timely book... Beinart offers a f...
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Old New Land
HardcoverOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /Old New Land forever altered the face of the Middle East. The book was a nineteenth-century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel. Th...
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A Double Burden: Israeli Jews in Contemporary Germany
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemit...
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - An urgent, wide-ranging portrait of the divisions among Israelis today, and the external threats to the...
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You Gentiles
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /First published in 1924, this provocative book is a passionate defense of the Jewish people and their contributions to world culture. The author ar...
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Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society: Profiles, Trends, and Challenges
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, r...
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Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary Left antisemitism.Product DetailsISBN-13: 97810...
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End of Days Ethics, Tradition, and Power in Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /End of Days is an Israeli Orthodox Jew's attempt to provide a Jewish faith-based alternative to ethnic superiority in Israel, and a theological pol...
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Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at the intersection of cultural and...
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Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Encountering Palestine: Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence, edited by Mark Griffiths and Mikko Joronen, sits at the intersection of cultural and...
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Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism
HardcoverOriginal price $49.50 - Original price $49.50Original price $49.50$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship 2022.Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternat...
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Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos...
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Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $94.99 - Original price $94.99Original price $94.99$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Over the past several decades, the prevailing attitude toward Judaism in Israeli society has undergone a meaningful shift; where the national ethos...
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Hakibbutz Ha'artzi, Mapam, and the Demise of the Israeli Labor Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement, which had enjoyed more than four decades of economi...
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Ten Myths About Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New Sta...
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Ar...
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The State of Israel vs. the Jews
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /PopMatters: Best Book of the Year From an award-winning journalist, a perceptive study of how Israel’s actions, which run counter to the traditio...
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A scathing criticism of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust to shield Israel from criticism--by a major figure at the center of the Isra...
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Meat Matters: Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty y...
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