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Library Resources at Temple Emanu-El

*All of these materials are available in the Weisberg Library.

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Israel & The Middle East

Avineri, Shlomo, Israel and the Palestinians
Bard, Mitchell, Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Covers every aspect of the Israeli-Arab conflict from the Mandate period through 2002.)
Chavets, Ze’ev, Heroes and Hustlers, Hardhats and Holymen: Inside the New Israel
Collins, Larry and Dominique Lapierre, O Jerusalem
Dershwitz, Alan, The Case for Israel
Gilbert, Martin, Israel: a History (Comprehensive overview of the Zionist enterprise: its roots, growth, and hurdles.)
Gilbert, Martin, Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century (Renowned historian presents dramatic testimony of the division of Jerusalem in 1948, and its reunification in the Six Day War.)
Lozowick, Yaacov, Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars
Netanyahu, Benjamin, A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism (Definitive overview of 20th century Israeli history.)
Oren, Michael, Six Days of War (Detailed account of the 1967 Six Day War.)
Oz, Amos, A Tale of Love and Darkness
Peters, Joan, From Time Immemorial (Exhaustive research on the Palestinian refugee issue.)
Sachar, Howard M., A History of Israel
Segey, Tom, One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the Mandate

Jewish Issues

Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews (Representing a lifetime of research, this book shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies.)
Johnson, Paul, A History of the Jews (Renowned Christian historian begins with the Bible and ends with the establishment of the State of Israel)
Prager, Dennis and Joseph Teushkin, Why the Jews? The Reason for Anti-Semitism (Discards conventional explanations of anti-Semitism to argue that its root causes are, paradoxically, the very convictions that have ensured Jewish survival.)

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Islam

Feiler, Bruce, Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
Firestone, Reuven, Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews
Lewis, Bernard, What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (A scholarly account of the current state of affairs in the Arab world.)

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