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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “yael zerubavel”
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  • Desert in the Promised Land

    by Yael Zerubavel ...
    "A complex and fascinating portrait of Israel . . . .an engaging book that combines anthropology, culture, and history." —Anita Shapira, author of Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern IsraelAt once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desert in the Promised Land

    by Yael Zerubavel ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews' biblical roots that inspired the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Taking Stock

    Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life

    by Josh Friedman, Carol A. Kidron, Oren Stier, Yael Zerubavel, Mitchell B. Hart, Anat Leibler, Vanessa L. Ochs ...
    Series series The Modern Jewish Experience
    Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jews—these essays reveal a social life of Jewish numbers. As they trace ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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    “A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism” (The Washington Post) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer“[A] thoughtful analysis of America’s War on Terror.”—The New YorkerThe wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attac. ... Read more

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  • Contested Land, Contested Memory

    Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe

    by Jo Roberts ...
    1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.After a war, the victors write history. How was the story of the exiled Palestinians erased -- from textbooks, maps, even the land? How do Jewish and ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving Israel

    How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End

    by Daniel Gordis ...
    Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether they ought to persevere. Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Promise of Israel

    Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength

    by Daniel Gordis ...
    Why Israel's greatest weakness is its greatest strength, and what its supporters and enemies can learn from its successIsrael's critics in the West insist that no country founded on a single religion or culture can stay democratic and prosperous?but they're wrong. In The Promise of Israel, Daniel Gordis points out that Israel has defied that conventional wisdom. It has provided its citizens ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jerusalem

    A Biblical and Historical Case for the Jewish Capital

    by Jay Sekulow ...
    In his new book, New York Times bestselling author Jay Sekulow presents a political and historical rationale for the existence of Israel as a sovereign nation.The State of Israel and its very right to exist is a lynchpin issue not only in the Middle-East, but is a critical issue to the world at large. Whether it is the blatant and stated desire of ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran to wipe Israel ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Essential Israel

    Essays for the 21st Century

    by Arnon Golan, Maoz Azaryahu, Michael Brenner, Alan Dowty, David Makovsky, Gil Troy, Yedidia Stern, Donna Robinson Divine, Steven Bayme, David Ellenson, Yaakov Ariel, Norman Stillman, Rachel S. Harris, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Carol Troen ...
    Series series Perspectives on Israel Studies
    "An excellent tool in Middle Eastern politics classes [and] an intellectual resource for experts who want to learn more about the complexities of Israel."— Reading ReligionAmericans debate constantly about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Palestine Nakba

    Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory

    by Nur Masalha ...
    2012 marks the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. This book explores new ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba. In the context of Palestinian oral history, it explores 'social history from below', subaltern narratives of memory and the formation of collective identity. Masalha argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Making Israel

    Edited by Benny Morris ...
    Benny Morris is the founding father of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have challenged long-established perceptions about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their research rigorously documented crimes and atrocities committed by the Israeli armed forces, including rape, torture, and ethnic cleansing. With Making Israel, Morris brings together the first collection ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Tel-Aviv, the First Century

    Visions, Designs, Actualities

    Edited by Maoz Azaryahu, S. Ilan Troen ...
    Series series Israel Studies
    "A learned and engaging collection of essays" on Israel's diverse, modern metropolis, established in 1909 ( Religious Studies Review).Tel-Aviv, the First Century brings together a broad range of scholars and cutting-edge research to trace the development and paradoxes of Tel-Aviv as an urban center and a national symbol. Through the lenses of history, literature, urban planning, gender studies, ... Read more

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