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New Books in Israel Studies
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Melissa Weininger, "Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
63 hours 30 mins; October 21, 2023
The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
45 mins; October 19, 2023
The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective
19 mins; October 16, 2023
Rachel Elior, "The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages: On Learning and Illiteracy, On Slavery and Liberty" (de Gruyter, 2023)
102 hours 15 mins; September 29, 2023
Vincent Lemire, "In the Shadow of the Wall: The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187-1967" (Stanford UP, 2023)
63 hours 5 mins; September 19, 2023
Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
81 hours 53 mins; September 15, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Gadi Sagiv, "Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
32 mins; August 13, 2023
Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2023
Stanley E. Porter and Alan E. Kurschner eds., "The Future Restoration of Israel: A Response to Supersessionism" (Pickwick, 2023)
22 mins; August 08, 2023
Yoni Furas, "Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 34 mins; August 07, 2023
Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
48 mins; August 03, 2023
Lea Taragin-Zeller, "The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2023)
64 hours 44 mins; July 24, 2023
Leslie Turnberg, "Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021)
66 hours 36 mins; July 12, 2023
Daniel Boyarin, "The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
55 mins; July 07, 2023
Anne Irfan, "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia UP, 2023)
57 mins; June 24, 2023
Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
52 mins; June 18, 2023
Gabriel Schwake, "Dwelling on the Green Line" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 17, 2023
Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: A Nonprofit Approach
28 mins; June 14, 2023
Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
54 mins; June 08, 2023
Randy Grigsby, "A Train to Palestine: The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019)
58 mins; June 06, 2023
Hilary Frances Aked, "Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity" (Verso, 2023)
82 hours 22 mins; May 30, 2023
Daniel Gordis, "Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders' Dreams?" (Ecco Press, 2023)
37 mins; May 17, 2023
Daniel Roth, "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice" (Oxford UP, 2021)
26 mins; May 03, 2023
Awad Halabi, "Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948" (U Texas Press, 2023)
81 hours 26 mins; April 23, 2023
Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)
47 mins; April 20, 2023
The Future of Antisemitism: A Discussion with Dave Rich
58 mins; April 15, 2023
Jennifer Lynn Kelly, "Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine" (Duke UP, 2023)
77 hours 2 mins; April 09, 2023
Amahl Bishara, "Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression" (Stanford UP, 2022)
48 mins; April 09, 2023
Eric Alterman, "We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel" (Basic Book, 2022)
61 hours 23 mins; March 30, 2023
Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
83 hours 44 mins; March 21, 2023
Sharon Shalom, "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews" (Gefen Books, 2016)
56 mins; March 08, 2023
Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
66 hours 16 mins; February 23, 2023
Oren Kessler, "Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
85 hours 55 mins; February 21, 2023
M. M. Silver, "The History of Galilee, 1538-1949" (Lexington Books, 2022)
116 hours 20 mins; February 04, 2023
Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
76 hours 45 mins; February 01, 2023
George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
56 mins; January 29, 2023
Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
68 hours 9 mins; January 27, 2023
David Z. Moster, "Etrog: How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol" (Palgrave Pivot, 2018)
42 mins; January 11, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
66 hours 21 mins; January 11, 2023
Lior Lehrs, "Unofficial Peace Diplomacy: Private Peace Entrepreneurs in Conflict Resolution Processes" (Manchester UP, 2022)
48 mins; January 08, 2023
Gil Hovav, "Candies from Heaven" (Green Bean Books, 2023)
79 hours 39 mins; January 08, 2023
Bordering the Bedouin
73 hours 25 mins; January 07, 2023
Ron Kronish, "Profiles in Peace: Voices of Peacebuilders in the Midst of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2022)
45 mins; December 27, 2022
Ruth Tsoffar, "Life in Citations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture" (Routledge, 2019)
111 hours 41 mins; December 24, 2022
Munira Khayyat, "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (U California Press, 2022)
57 mins; December 18, 2022
Frederic C. Hof, "Reaching for the Heights: The Inside Story of a Secret Attempt to Reach a Syrian-Israeli Peace" (USIP, 2022)
82 hours 50 mins; December 08, 2022
Nadim Bawalsa, "Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948" (Stanford UP, 2022)
79 hours 25 mins; December 04, 2022
Shaul Bartal and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer, "Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qara?awi on the Jews, Zionism and Israel" (Routledge, 2017)
30 mins; December 04, 2022
Fida Jiryis, "The Cage" (Pardes, 2022)
38 mins; November 24, 2022
Mark D. Calder, "Bethlehem's Syriac Christians: Self, Nation and Church in Dialogue and Practice" (Gorgias Press, 2017)
103 hours 25 mins; November 16, 2022
Sustainable Agriculture in the Global South: A Religious Response to the Global Food Crisis
42 mins; October 25, 2022
Salim Tamari, "Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
75 hours 59 mins; October 13, 2022
Eran Kaplan, "Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
63 hours 10 mins; October 11, 2022
Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
22 mins; September 28, 2022
Andreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv" (Indiana UP, 2022)
62 hours 0 mins; September 27, 2022
Dario Miccoli, "A Sephardi Sea: Jewish Memories Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Indiana UP, 2022)
68 hours 51 mins; September 22, 2022
Corinne E. Blackmer, "Queering Anti-Zionism: Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
31 mins; September 19, 2022
Tamar Biala, "Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
60 hours 12 mins; September 13, 2022
Tilde Rosmer, "The Islamic Movement in Israel" (U Texas Press, 2022)
79 hours 13 mins; September 07, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press, 2022)
50 mins; September 01, 2022
Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
63 hours 4 mins; August 30, 2022
Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
67 hours 1 min; August 29, 2022
Kareem Rabie, "Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank" (Duke UP, 2021)
61 hours 32 mins; August 26, 2022
Addressing Hunger, Food Insecurity--Local Solutions to a Global Problem
39 mins; August 25, 2022
Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
126 hours 15 mins; August 25, 2022
Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
90 hours 33 mins; August 24, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
64 hours 30 mins; August 12, 2022
Robert W. Tomlinson, "The Influence of Foreign Wars on U.S. Domestic Military Policy: The Case of the Yom Kippur War" (Lexington, 2022)
32 mins; July 27, 2022
Giore Etzion, "The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew" (Routledge, 2019)
23 mins; July 22, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
86 hours 30 mins; July 13, 2022
Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)
56 mins; July 11, 2022
On Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
32 mins; July 08, 2022
Shaul Adar, "On the Border: The Rise and Decline of the Most Political Club in the World" (Pitch Publishing, 2022)
44 mins; July 05, 2022
Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
54 mins; July 04, 2022
Seán William Gannon, "The Irish Imperial Service: Policing Palestine and Administering the Empire, 1922–1966" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
69 hours 28 mins; June 28, 2022
Matthew Teller, "Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" (Other Press/Profile Books, 2022)
68 hours 48 mins; June 24, 2022
Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
52 mins; June 22, 2022
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, "European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
62 hours 35 mins; June 22, 2022
Lori A. Allen, "A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
45 mins; June 20, 2022
Sarah Irving et al., "'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)" (Brill, 2022)
57 mins; June 17, 2022
Matthew Mark Silver, "Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
65 hours 23 mins; June 03, 2022
Jeffrey Herf, "Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
34 mins; June 02, 2022
Christopher Harker, "Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine" (Duke UP, 2020)
65 hours 14 mins; May 31, 2022
Randa Khair Abbas and Deborah Court, "The Israeli Druze Community in Transition: Between Tradition and Modernity" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
27 mins; May 30, 2022
Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022) Part 2 of 2
56 mins; May 27, 2022
Evyn LĂŞ Espiritu Gandhi, "Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
65 hours 46 mins; May 23, 2022
Maria Chiara Rioli, "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020)
49 mins; May 13, 2022
Louis Fishman, "Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland" (Edinburgh UP. 2021)
60 hours 20 mins; May 10, 2022
Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
73 hours 56 mins; May 05, 2022
Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell, "The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; May 04, 2022
Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
55 mins; May 03, 2022
Ramadan Violence: A Conversation with Ambassador Dore Gold
30 mins; April 27, 2022
Sigal Naor Perelman, "Machluta" (Pardes, 2020)
61 hours 19 mins; April 19, 2022
Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
50 mins; April 14, 2022
Anthony Shaw and Giora Goodman, "Hollywood and Israel: A History" (Columbia UP, 2022)
51 mins; April 08, 2022
On Israel, Palestine, and Christian Zionism
56 mins; March 29, 2022
Jørgen Jensehaugen, "Arab-Israeli Diplomacy Under Carter: The US, Israel and the Palestinians" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
75 hours 54 mins; March 29, 2022
Andrew Lawler, "Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City" (Doubleday, 2021)
44 mins; March 28, 2022
Gardner Thompson, "Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel" (Saqi, 2020)
43 mins; March 02, 2022
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