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The Golda Meir story

1976
A biography of Golda Meir, whose childhood memories of Russia helped her work to establish the independent state of Israel.

Rabin

our life, his legacy
1997
A biography of slain Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin written by his wife, detailing the events of their forty-eight years together, and providing a record of the triumphs and tragedies of the history of the Jewish state.

Eichmann in my hands

1990
A first-person account by the Israeli agent who captured Hitler's chief executioner.

Triumph of hope

from Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
1998
Contains the memoirs of Holocaust survivor Ruth Elias and chronicles her life from a small Czechoslovakian town, to the infamous death camp at Auschwitz where she faced possible experimentation by Dr. Josef Mengele, to new challenges after the war in Israel.

Burnt bread & chutney

growing up between cultures : a memoir of an Indian Jewish girl
2002

Martyrs' crossing

a novel
2002
Israeli Lieutenant Ari Doron is ordered to refuse passage to a Palestinian mother and her young son at a Jerusalem checkpoint, which leads to an internationally watched series of riots and forces the young woman's American father to return to his homeland and choose sides as the Palestinians use his grandson as a propaganda tool.

The Bat-Chen diaries

2008
A collection of diaries, letters, poems, and drawings by Bat-Chen Shahak, a teenager who was killed by a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center in 1996.

Israel

opposing viewpoints
1994

Flying lessons

1995
Living in a village in Israel where her father grows oranges, a motherless girl befriends a sensitive shoemaker from Djerba from whom she hopes to learn how to fly.

To be seventeen in Israel

through the eyes of an American teenager
1987
Provides a view of Israeli society through the eyes of a visiting seventeen-year-old American, describing family life, schools, the army, recreation, and other aspects.

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