The Following Books about Israel are available from the Community Relations Council:
Myths and Facts – A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
by Mitchell G. Bard
$10
Myths about the Middle East did not originate in the 1950s, nor have they ceased to be promulgated. The tumultuous events in the region seem to be consistently accompanied by all new distortions of the facts about the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a simple question and answer format, Myths and Facts covers issues relating to Israel’s roots, her struggles through all her wars, and continues through the current crisis. Paperback edition
Conflict & Connection: The Jewish-Christian-Israel Triangle
By Moshe Aumann
$20
An extraordinary sea-change is taking lace in Jewish-Christian relations. Are we approaching a fundamental and historic resolution of the centuries-old conflict between Christianity and Judaism. Conflict and Connection illustrates a remarkable process of conciliation that is unfolding today, a process that inspires hope and change, a process that even fifty years ago was unimaginable. Paperback edition.
Close Encounters with Twenty Israeli Writers
By Eilat Negev
$20
A unique collection of twenty profiles of prominent Isralei writers, including Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Aaron Applefeld, Amos Oz, A.B. Yeshoshua, David Grossman, Meir Shalev, Orly Castel-bloom and Dorit Rabinyan, it covers a hundred years of Israeli literature. Arranged chronologically, from the oldest to the most recent, this collection illustrates the demographical and historical transformation that have occurred during that span of time. This is a first book of its kind. Together, the twenty interviews, represent a panorama of the Israeli experience – Diaspora, Holocaust, immigration, gender, the tension between religious and secular, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and Arabs. Paperback
(Those who register for the Israeli Literature group will receive this book as part of their dues).
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