palestine

A biography of the Jewish heroine whose mission to help rescue European Jews in World War II cost her her life.

A biography of the woman who, during World War I, led an espionage group whose goal was to help free the Jews of Palestine from the oppression of Turkish rule.

Arafat was at the center of Middle East politics for forty years and the Palestinian movement was almost entirely his creation.

Near Palestine in the 1890s, a train derails and its engineer, who was rushing to spend Hanukkah with friends, is surprised when a Bedouin who helps him says they are in the very place where the miracle of Hanukkah began.

Personalized vignettes convey the cultural, intellectual, and political life of Palestine in the 1920's and '30s as seen by a young resident.

Surveys the life and career of the first prime minister of Israel.

Surveys historical and current events in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, within the disputed areas and beyond, including the origins, goals, and activities of the major movements and groups.

Presents a biography of the Jewish leader who led the revolt against the Seleucid Empire, taking Jerusalem in 164 B.C. and rededicating the Temple.

Eilan, a British princess known to the Romans as Helena, banished from Avalon for indulging in a forbidden love, grows to be a wise woman who finds herself in the unique position, as mother of the Emperor Constantine, of having to find a way to bridge the gap between the pagan world of the Goddess and the new Christian empire her son created.