israel

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The garden

1997
After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.

One day in September

the full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"
2011
Provides a definitive account of the events that took place on September 5, 1972 in Munich, Germany when Palestinian terrorists took eleven Israeli atheletes hostage.

Teen voices from the Holy Land

who am I to you?
2007
Contains first-person narratives of the daily lives of thirty-four Palestinian and Israeli teens, offering insight into their interests, family, and culture.

Wandering star

a novel
2004
Ester, a Jewish girl who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe to Israel and Nejma, who lives in a Palestinian refugee camp both strive for peace in the turmoil of the Middle East.

Excavating Jesus

beneath the stones, behind the texts
2001
Draws upon ten of the most significant textual discoveries in biblical studies and ten important archaeological digs in ancient Palestine to illuminate Jesus Christ's life, teachings, and followers.

No time for patience

my road from Kaunas to Jerusalem : a memoir of a Holocaust survivor
1999
Holocaust survivor Zev Birger provides an account of his experiences first in the ghetto in Slobidka, and then as a laborer at the Dauchau/Kaufering concentration camp.

The garden

1998
After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations.

Selling the Holocaust

from Auschwitz to Schindler : how history is bought, packaged, and sold
1999
Explores how and why the Holocaust has come to be one of the most talked about and often represented event of the twentieth century, and argues that the business of the Holocaust--movies, plays, museums, books, and other items--is causing the horrific reality of the extermination of the Jews to be forgotten.

Arik

the life of Ariel Sharon
2013

Golda Meir

2011
Examines the life of Golda Meir against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment.

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