Tolan, Sandy.
Summary: Describes how a simple act of faith and the relationship between two families--one Israeli, one Palestinian--represents a personal microcosm of decades of Israeli-Palestinian history and symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 956.94 TOLTolan, Sandy
Summary: "In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the househe was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TOLTolan, Sandy.
Summary: The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people--one Israeli, one Palestinian--that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into Israel, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. Two were turned away, but the third was met at the door by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Pub. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld TolanSummary: "Along with the ordinary soldiers, civilians, and kibbutzniks who contributed to the independence movement, notable dignitaries share their most personal anecdotes about this remarkable moment in history," the establishment of the Jewish state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 956.94 LEVYaron, Lee
Summary: "The definitive account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home. On October 7, 2023-the Sabbath and the final day of the holiday of Sukkot-the Gaza-based terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault on the people of Israel. Crashing through the border, attacking from the sea and air, militants indiscriminately massacred civilians in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 956.94 YARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 YAR1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Sherman-Friedman, Tohar
Summary: "A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, depicting the reality of growing up in a region split by religious tensions-and sometimes violent conflict. From political protests to personal struggles with school, body image, and relationships with family and friends, Tohar Sherman-Friedman's life is an inspiring story of conflicting convictions, rebellion, and personal growth. Tohar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHERMAN-FRIEDMAN, TOHAR SHEWilliams, Emma.
Summary: In August, 2000, Emma Williams arrived with her three small children in Jerusalem to join her husband and to work as a doctor. A month later, the Palestinian intifada erupted. For the next three years, she was to witness an astonishing series of events in which hundreds of thousands of lives, including her own, were turned upside down. Williams lived on the very border of East and West...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Branch Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, EMMA WILBellow, Saul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.694 BELRashḳes, Moshe
Summary: "Exquisitely written with a poetically beautiful touch, Days of Lead is the page-turning true story of a young soldier's brave escapades during Israel's War of Independence in 1948. This incredible account is a story of determination and heroism, but also a stinging portrait of life on the battlefield--of looking an enemy soldier, also wide-eyed and only eighteen, in the eyes and knowing that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apollo Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RASHKES, MOSHE RASGordis, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 GORGlidden, Sarah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertigo/DC Comics 2010