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Diamant, Anita.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIA

Diamant, Anita.

Summary: Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIA

O'Nan, Stewart

Summary: "In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONA

Lerner, Michael

Summary: "Embracing Israel/Palestine presents Rabbi Michael Lerner's continuing attempt to explain the current struggles between Israel and Palestine in a way that is sympathetic to both sides and provides a strategy to building a lasting peace based on acceptance, generosity, and open-hearted reconciliation"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Tikkun Books ; North Atlantic Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.05 LER

Gilbert, Martin

Summary: The author "traces Israel's history from the struggles of its pioneers in the nineteenth century up to the present day. Along the way, he describes the defining moments in the history of the Jewish people, among them the Balfour Declaration of 1917; the United Nations Partition Resolution of 1947; and the founding of the State of Israel in 1948."--Jacket.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 GIL

Summary: This is a dual narrative of Israeli and Palestinian history, where readers can track each against the other, noting both where they differ as well as where they correspond. This format reveals surprising juxtapositions and allows readers to consider and process the very different viewpoints and logic of each side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 SID

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Summary: One of America's leading attorneys offers an impassioned defense of the state of Israel, arguing that, although the country is not perfect, it remains the only outpost of democracy in the Middle East, answering critics who accuse Israel of being an imperialist power and documenting the facts about the nature of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DER

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