In this account of a Muslim American family living through a hurricane and its aftermath, Dave Eggers looks at how an accidental savior was turned into the enemy.
In a well-reasoned, if polemical book, a British political analyst looks at the growing virulence of anti-Israel sentiment in Europe, and suggests it has its basis in insecurity.
Vasily Grossman's work was censored by Soviet authorities until 1988. Reading this novel about a Jewish scientist's release from 30 years' imprisonment, one can understand why.
In his new book, Maj. Gen. Elazar Stern comes across as an officer incapable of breaking free of the paradigms of the religious Zionism in which he was reared - and which, to his great dismay, no longer exist.
If the earth is getting warmer, why has it been such a cold winter in parts of the world? Understanding and contending with climate change requires reliable information and an open mind. An Israeli anthropologist looks at how to keep the effort on track.
Christians were pulling for the Jews' return to the Holy Land centuries before the dawn of modern Zionism, says historian Shalom Goldman. For some, it was an integral part of their vision of the End of Days.
Marc Rich: Billionaire businessman and philanthropist, or crook? Most loyal of men, or traitor? This book won't tell you, but it will leave you well informed about the most enigmatic of men.
A onetime American radical famously turned ultra-right says the idealism and generosity of his late daughter helped soften some of his own attitudes, but doesn't really demonstrate how.
A serial killer releasing venomous serpents among the Haredi population of Jerusalem sounds like a promising premise for a mystery. Unfortunately, Asher Kravitz forgot to include any suspense.
Though theater scholar Roni Pisker evinces a familiar disdain for sports fans, he breaks ground by at least recognizing the essential dramatic qualities of the athletic contest.
Less than a hundred years after it declared war on the heder, Jewish literature began to long for it. A new collection of articles and memoirs explains the paradox surrounding the oldest and most vilified educational institution of them all.
How many citizens of the Reich acted to resist or to overthrow Hitler's regime, and what were their motives? A young Israeli historian looks at the Nazi period and sees Righteous Gentiles all over the map.
Despite their best efforts to produce an ecumenical book, the editors of this beautiful volume on the Temple Mount could not induce their Jewish, Christian and Muslim authors to agree on a single narrative, a fact that only confirms the complex and deeply held variety of traditions associated with the site.
Does anything new remain to be said about Anne Frank and her diary? Apparently yes, when the writer is Francine Prose. In a book characterized by both passion and judiciousness, she explores a captivating range of facets to the 'Diary of a Young Girl'
There's not much time left to bring to justice war criminals who helped perpetrate the Holocaust, says Efraim Zuroff. But he's having trouble finding people who want to listen.
Nearly three decades after its initial publication, Yoram Kaniuk's 'The Last Jew' remains a work of wizardry, a trick that succeeds in deceiving history: Death does not defeat the Jew. Perhaps that is something only life can do.
Maya Arad has taken on a nearly impossible mission, based on an idea nothing short of brilliant: a book about the life of a short story writer that includes the stories he has written.
More than 50 years after his tragic death in a plane crash, at age 34, Maj. Gen Asaf Simhoni is still a subject of both awe and controversy in the Israel Defense Forces.
Ronen Bergman places a mirror in front of the Israeli reader and the image reflected back is not flattering. Sleman al-Shafhe describes the effect of the Gilad Shalit affair on the more than one million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip.
This animated introduction to the rift in Islam has implications for contemporary regional politics, of course, but mainly is a fascinating tale of a succession dispute that still festers, nearly 1,400 years later.
A British detention center for Jewish women who have survived the Holocaust only to be caught immigrating illegally to Palestine is the setting of the newest offering from 'Red Tent' author Anita Diamant.
This biography of experimental Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector unearths many interesting facts about her life, but fails to make a convincing case that an author's life story is the key to understanding her work.
Whether you intend to visit these three historically significant sites along the Dead Sea in person or from your armchair, Hanan Eshel's guides provide a refreshingly professional introduction to each of them.
As military secretary to two prime ministers and a one-time head of the Mossad, Danny Yatom has seen enough to guarantee that his memoirs will cover interesting ground. But he still doesn't seem to have made up his mind about what it will take for Israel to make peace.
Two very different novels, each brilliant in its own way, present the challenges women can face when they join their fate to that of a man - starting with the shock of childbirth.
Sholem Aleichem's most popular work receives its fifth translation into Hebrew, this time by literary scholar Dan Miron, who sees the darkness at the heart of the stories.
The slightly breathless yet fascinating story of how one little country forged its world-shaping high-tech industry from the sands of the desert and the mosquito-infested waters of the swamps.
The success of this new Israel edition of Pirkei Avot (Sayings of the Fathers ), stems from the text's accessible tone, its fact-packed commentary, and the book's elegantly inviting design.
Ron Leshem's second novel takes the reader on a journey into the Tehran underground, and a society filled with conflicting forces not so alien to Israelis.
Eight decades ago, half the population of the Bronx was Jewish, and the 'Champs-Elysees' of their world was the four-and-a-half-mile long Grand Concourse. Today, most of the Jews, and most of the glamour, are gone, but there are some signs of revival. A new book tells the story.
Despite the difficulty in understanding it, Ibn Ezra's 'Foundation of Awe' has long been viewed with great respect among Jewish scholars. Now this 12th century classic is available in an annotated Hebrew edition.
A thoroughly researched ?anthropological-culinary' book on Yemenite Jewish cuisine demonstrates how food is far more than just a mixture of ingredients
The creator of a new thriller series, featuring a Mossad operative named Dan Gordon, draws on his own years of experience gathering intelligence for the Americans
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