Israel & Palestine

Founded in 1981, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most important yet least understood Palestinian armed factions, both in terms of its history and ideology. Yet no in-depth translation of its ideological corpus exists. This book is the first...

In 1880 the Jewish community in Palestine encompassed some 20,000 Orthodox Jews; within sixty-five years it was transformed into a secular proto-state with well-developed political, military, and economic institutions, a vigorous Hebrew-language culture,...

After more than seventy years, the Palestinian refugee problem remains unsolved. But if a deal could have been reached involving the repatriation of Palestinian refugees, it was in the early years of the Arab-Israeli conflict. So why didn't this happen?...

Founded in 1929, the Jewish Agency played a central role in the founding and development of the State of Israel. Throughout the 1920s, 30s and 40s, the JA wanted to influence opinion in the region and many secret meetings took place between them and Arab...

How are forbidden histories told and transmitted among young people in Israel/Palestine? What can their stories teach us about their everyday experiences of segregation and political violence? This book investigates how young people use storytelling to...

Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century’s most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and...

The Israeli peace movement has been in decline since the 2000s. In particular, the liberal Zionist groups, who call for peace for the sake of the security and continuity of Israel, have become paralysed and almost voiceless since the second Intifada...

Beginning from the early 2000s, constant and pervasive documentation using mobile phone cameras by both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian activists has routinely exposed grave abuses of state power, such as illegal arrests or unlawful killings. Two...

The Palestinian national liberation movement – or the Palestinian revolution as it is known in Arabic – emerged during the 1960s as an iconic cause of the global Left. This volume highlights the different practices of international solidarity that...

Alongside the upsurge in violence that came with the downfall of the Oslo era in the early 2000s, a new wave of documentaries emerged that centered on Palestinians' and Mizrahim's (Jews of Middle Eastern origins) historical and lived experiences of pain...

Since 1993, various international donors have poured money into a People-to-People (P2P) diplomacy programme in Palestine. This grassroots initiative - still funded by prominent external donors today - seeks to foster public engagement through contact...

Hosting over 30,000 inhabitants and governed by competing militias, 'Ayn al-Hilwe in the south of Lebanon is one of the most contested refugee camps in the Middle East. Known as the 'Capital of the Palestinian Diaspora', the camp has endured a long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980189421Author Norman WeissmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Hammonasset House BooksPublisher Hammonasset House BooksWeight(grams)...

Barbara Kreiger's intriguing narrative presents the account of Clorinda Minor, a charismatic American Christian woman whose belief in the Second Coming prompted her to leave a comfortable life in Philadelphia in 1851 and take up agriculture in Palestine...

This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997263534Author Nahida Halaby GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Palestine BooksPublisher Palestine BooksWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Philosophy and Practice in Writing a History of Ancient Israel elucidates and examines assumptions about history writing that current historians of ancient Israel and Judah employ. It is undertaken in the context of the conflict between so-called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780638928037Author Douglas L HildrethFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Gulam PublishersPublisher Gulam PublishersWeight(grams) 299g

A former CIA analyst looks at nearly three decades of U.S. Middle East policy to examine the pervasive and too-often disastrous influence of Israel's right wing Likud party. In this revelatory volume, Stephen PelletiEre, the CIA's Iraq analyst in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990485230Author Frank Joseph RomanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint AB Film PublishingPublisher AB Film PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860547211Author Joshua J. SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint BAR PublishingPublisher BAR Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425729677Author Elsa M Van Der LaakenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 299g

Tradition and Politics is a comprehensive study of the religious parties of Israel. Gary S. Schiff traces the religious parties of the modern state of Israel from their origins in Europe early in the twentieth century to, in response and reaction to the...

This book examines the conflict between Louis D. Brandeis and Chaim Weizmann, two dominant personalities, each credited by devoted followers as the hero of a crucial era in recent Jewish history. The author considers how each man confronted the problem...

When the American Jewish philanthropist Judah Touro died in 1854 he entrusted $50,000 to the Englishman Sir Moses Montefiore, requesting that it be used for the poor of Jerusalem. This engrossing book, the result of twelve years of research, tells the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891301493Author Frank S FrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

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Make Room for Dreams examines Zionism from both a philosophical and practical point of view. This in-depth study reviews and evaluates the notion that Zionism has become a way of enlisting political or economic support for Israel and is no longer seen as...

This book provides a thorough and detailed examination of Israeli institutions and how they function. It explains the decline in effectiveness of the government and the spread of cultural malaise in the Israel of the eighties. Horowitz and Lissak trace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994682574Author Alaa TartirFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Afro-Middle East CentrePublisher Afro-Middle East CentreWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm)...

This is the controversial history of the British government's involvement in the Zionist project, from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the present day. Written by the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, the Declaration stated 'His...

An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem's social history.Overlooking the Border: Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. The book's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983199113Author Bruce SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Kalamazoo PublishingPublisher Kalamazoo PublishingWeight(grams) 317g

Protracted occupation has become a rare phenomenon in the 21st century. One notable exception is Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which began over four decades ago, after the Six-Day War in 1967. While many studies have examined...

This book contains the full text of the IHUD (Union) Association's evidence, both written and oral, before the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine in 1947. It also contains passages of the IHUD's evidence before the Anglo-American Committee of...

American Aliyah (immigration to Palestine) began in the mid-nineteenth century fueled by the desire of American Jews to study Torah and by their wish to live and be buried in the Holy Land. His movement of people-men and women-increased between World War...

Translated originally from Hebrew, Transnational Identities: Women, Art, and Migration in Contemporary Israel offers a critical discussion of women immigrants in Israel through an analysis of works by artists who immigrated to the country beginning in...

Writing about Palestine and the Palestinians continue to be controversial. Until the late 1980s, the question of Palestine was approached through Western social theories that had appeared after World War 2. This endowed European settlers and colonists...

Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth century's most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and - to some - controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studies and...