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 DERKessler, Oren
Summary: Spring 1936. The Holy Land erupted in a rebellion that targeted both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab Revolt would last three years, cost thousands of lives, and cast the trajectory for the Middle East conflict ever since. The revolt to end Zionism had instead crushed the Arabs themselves,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wld KesslerThomas, M. J.
Summary: "The mysterious scroll transports the time-traveling trio back to Bethlehem where they quickly befriend a young David before he faces Goliath"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2018
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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 ONAKhalidi, Rashid
Summary: A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Krämer, Gudrun.
Contents: Names and borders -- The holiness of the "Holy Land" -- Contrasts : Palestine, 1750-1840 -- The age of reform, 1840-1914 -- Evolving nationalisms : Zionism and Arabism, 1880-1914 -- "A land without a people for a people without a land"? : Population, settlement, and cultivation, 1800-1914 -- World War I and the British mandate -- Double standard, or dual obligation -- "Two peoples in one land"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 KRASummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.9405 SIDMaier, Paul L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kregel Publications 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "An engrossing family memoir that shines a light on Palestine's history, offering a sober yet hopeful view of its people's struggles for freedom, from the award-winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I. The quest for his great-uncle Najib Nassar, an Ottoman journalist-the details of his life, and the route of his great escape from occupied Palestine-consumed award-winning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHEDalin, David G.
Summary: In 1921, the beneficiary of an appointment the British would live to regret, Haj Amin al-Husseini became the mufti of Jerusalem, the most eminent and influential Islamic leader in the Middle East. For years, al-Husseini fomented violence in the region against the Jews he loathed and wished to destroy. Forced out in 1937, he eventually found his way to the country whose legions he desperately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 DALShehadeh, Raja
Summary: "A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Palestinian and Israeli futures. When apartheid in South Africa ended in 1994, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keeping with a history of antagonism, the Israeli state...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SHESummary: War in Palestine: Palestinian Arabs fighting (part 1)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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Crace, Jim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus, Giroux 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRADekker, Ted
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes. She found strength in his words,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEKDiamant, Anita.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DIAWiesel, Elie
Summary: "A young Jewish man, Holocaust survivor, and Israeli freedom fighter named Elisha holds an English officer captive. One of his fellow freedom fighters has been executed by the British, so Elisha plans to murder his prisoner at dawn in retribution. But as the hours pass, Elisha struggles with guilty feelings. Haunted by his past and wrestling with his God, he grow increasingly troubled as the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WIESummary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD Classic ExodusCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXODiamant, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DIACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIAShapiro, Delilah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metrobooks 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 956.94 SHASummary: War in Palestine: Palestinian Arabs fighting (part 2)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1946
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King, Laurie R.
Summary: In 1919, Sherlock Holmes and his future wife Mary Russell are smuggled into Palestine under cover of darkness. Disguised as Arabs they foil a Turkish plot to regain control of Jerusalem from the British.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYS KINSummary: Renewed tension in Palestine - reaction to the UN plan to partition Israel and Palestine
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: Jewish-Arab unrest in Palestine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Ehrman, Bart D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999