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Smadar Lavie, “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Revised Edition)” (U Nebraska Press, 2018)

39 mins; October 23, 2018

Rachel Harris, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” (Wayne State UP, 2017)

48 mins; October 10, 2018

Gary Fields, “Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” (U California Press, 2017)

54 mins; August 16, 2018

Eran Kaplan, “Beyond Post-Zionism” (SUNY Press, 2015)

38 mins; July 25, 2018

Jamie Stern-Weiner, “Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions” (OR Books, 2018)

38 mins; July 19, 2018

Guy Laron, “The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East” (Yale UP, 2017)

55 mins; July 16, 2018

Guy Burton, “Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1947” (Lexington Books, 2018)

32 mins; June 18, 2018

Yaron Peleg, “Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television” (University of Texas Press, 2016)

47 mins; June 12, 2018

Michael Brenner, “In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea” (Princeton UP, 2018)

31 mins; April 30, 2018

Michal Kravel-Tovi, “When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel” (Columbia UP, 2017)

40 mins; April 25, 2018

Ada Rapoport-Albert, “Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender” (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018)

89 hours 14 mins; March 20, 2018

Ian Black, “Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)

43 mins; March 02, 2018

Maha Nassar, “Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World” (Stanford UP, 2017)

48 mins; March 01, 2018

David Biale, “Hasidism: A New History” (Princeton UP, 2018)

74 hours 1 min; February 22, 2018

Sara Hirschhorn, “City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement” (Harvard UP, 2017)

29 mins; February 20, 2018

Noam Zadoff, “Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back” (Brandeis UP, 2018)

74 hours 11 mins; January 23, 2018

Ella Shohat, “On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements” (Pluto Press, 2017)

50 mins; January 16, 2018

Jack Jacobs, ed. “Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism, and Gender” (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

37 mins; December 18, 2017

David Jacobson, “The Charm of Wise Hesitancy: Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture” (Academic Studies Press, 2017)

38 mins; November 28, 2017

Karen Ross, “Youth Encounter Programs in Israel: Pedagogy, Identity and Social Change” (Syracuse UP, 2017)

84 hours 12 mins; November 18, 2017

Benjamin Brown, “The Haredim: A Guide to Their Beliefs and Sectors” (Am-Oved, 2017)

39 mins; November 16, 2017

David Goldstein, “Alley-Oop To Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in The Holy Land” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017)

37 mins; November 11, 2017

Mya Guranieri Jaradat, “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others” (U. Chicago/Pluto Press, 2017)

25 mins; October 19, 2017

Yakov M. Rabkin, “What Is Modern Israel?” (U. Chicago/Pluto Press, 2016)

43 mins; October 04, 2017

Cyrus Schayegh, “The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World” (Harvard UP, 2017)

76 hours 22 mins; October 02, 2017

Andrea L. Stanton, “This is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio in Mandate Palestine” (U of Texas Press, 2013)

61 hours 5 mins; September 14, 2017

Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, “The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR’s Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict” (Oxford UP, 2017)

59 mins; July 19, 2017

Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

38 mins; May 15, 2017

Bryan K. Roby, “The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle, 1948-1966” (Syracuse UP, 2015)

27 mins; November 14, 2016

Adam Rovner, “In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel” (New York UP, 2014)

31 mins; September 05, 2016

Dov Waxman, “Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel” (Princeton UP, 2016)

31 mins; August 08, 2016

Bard Kartveit, “Dilemmas of Attachment: Identity and Belonging among Palestinian Christians” (Brill, 2014)

55 mins; June 18, 2016

Hillel Cohen, “Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929” (Brandeis UP, 2015)

34 mins; April 27, 2016

Theodore Sasson, “The New American Zionism” (NYU Press, 2014)

34 mins; February 28, 2016

Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)

42 mins; December 17, 2015

Erica Weiss, “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

30 mins; December 10, 2015

Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)

30 mins; December 08, 2015

Ilan Zvi Baron, “Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique” (Edinburgh UP, 2015)

32 mins; November 19, 2015

Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)

58 mins; April 06, 2015

Aristotle Tziampiris, “The Emergence of Israeli-Greek Cooperation” (Springer, 2015)

26 mins; March 30, 2015

Emily Alice Katz, “Bringing Zion Home: Israel in American Jewish Culture, 1948-1967” (SUNY Press, 2015)

54 mins; March 26, 2015

Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, “This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (Wiley, 2011)

44 mins; June 10, 2011

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