jerusalem

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Gavriel and Jemal

two boys of Jerusalem
1984
Explores the lives of a Jewish boy and a Palestinian boy growing up in Jerusalem.

What do you buy the children of the terrorist who tried to kill your wife?

a memoir
David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, newly married, moved to Jerusalem to attend graduate school. While David slept in that day, Jamie went to classes at Hebrew University. She was sitting in the cafeteria with friends when a bomb went off, triggered by a suicide bomber. The friends sitting next to her were killed, Jamie went to the hospital, and David tried to make sense of it all. His quest led him to East Jerusalem and the Hamas terrorist and his family.

O Jerusalem

a Mary Russell novel
2009
Sherlock Holmes and his apprentice Mary Russell travel to Jerusalem where they attempt to find the person responsible for a recent rash of brutal murders.

We just want to live here

a Palestinian teenager, an Israeli teenager-- an unlikely friendship
2003
Presents a correspondence between two young women living in Jerusalem--Palestinian Amal Rifa'i and Israeli Odelia Ainbinder--in which they discuss their hopes and plans for the future, and share their feelings about the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews.

Adolf Eichmann

engineer of death
2001
Presents volume one in an eight-volume series featuring Holocaust biographies and examines the role that Adolf Eichmann played in the systematic extermination of over six million Jews during World War Two and provides information on his youth, his rise in the Nazi Party, and escape, capture, and execution in 1962.

The trial of Adolf Eichmann

the Holocaust on trial
1999
Chronicles the trial of the Nazi war criminal, which became a reminder to the world of the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust.

Crusader gold

2008
Marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team risk their lives to search for a fabled treasure lost during the Crusades while uncovering a Vatican conspiracy that could change the course of history.

One city, two brothers

2007
To settle an inheritance dispute between two brothers, King Solomon tells a tale of how Jerusalem came to be founded.

Next year in Jerusalem

3,000 years of Jewish stories
1996
Jewish stories set in Jerusalem, adapted from the Talmud and Midrash, Hasidic sources, and oral tradition, with origins in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Spain, Italy, and Greece.

Golden windows

and other stories of Jerusalem
1993
Five short stories which describe what it was like to grow up in Jerusalem in the first half of the twentieth century.

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