The history of the Middle East wars, the conflicts in the area and the development of the various armed forces involved. Table of Contents: Israel's First War (The War of Independence); Uneasy Truce; Suez and Sinai 1956; Regrouping and Rearmament; The Six Day War; Confrontation and Attrition; The October War 1973; Crisis in the Lebanon; Israel in Difficulty; The First Gulf War; The Second Gulf War.

206 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, 24cmX30cm, good condition: pages are white and clean, binding is strong, jacket is good. ISBN 0792456572.

Already longer than the Thirty Years War, shorter as yet than the Hundred Years War, the Middle East War of the mid - and late 20th century shares at least one common factor with these, in that it consists of a series of full-scale conflicts, interspersed with periods of recovery, rearmament, diplomacy and argument.
(J.N. Westwood: The History of the Middle East Wars, page 8)

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Elusive Victory: The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1947-1974

A bibliography of geological research of the Nile Delta. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author and is accompanied by an author index and a subject index.

169 pages, paperback, 27cm tall, good condition: clean and tight copy. Rare book.

The book A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta allows the reader to obtain a deeper insight into rabbinic literature. It shows, for example, how rabbinic concepts differ from the ideas of the Bible, and yet that tabbinic concepts always possess biblical antecedents. The conceptual approach also solves a major problem of rabbinic literature - How are the midrashic statements related to each other?

215 pages, paperback, 12.5cmX18.5cm, good condition: pages are unmarked and tight, some rubbing to covers.

The Mekilta is a tannaitic Midrash, and it consists of interpretations of extensive portions of the book of Exodus. Lauterbach has pointed out that the Mekilta, unlike other tannaitic Midrashim, contains more haggadic, non-juristic, than halakic, juristic interpretations. This preponderance of Haggadah is to be accounted for, as he says, by the fact that the Book of Exodus ``contains by far more narrative than law.``
(Max Kadushin: A Conceptual Approach to the Mekilta, page 1)

The Universal Square: Translations is a multi-lingual book that was part of the presentation of Israeli artist  Uri Tzaig at Venice Biennale. The book includes three texts in English: Jerusalem, Summer 1994; Tel Aviv, Summer 1993; The Universal Square; and translations of The Universal Square into Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Japanese.

No pagination, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: clean and tight copy.

In this collection of essays, Amos Oz analyzes the opening sections of novels and short stories by such writers as Agnon, Gogol, Kafka, Chekhov, García Márquez, and Raymond Carver. Translated from the Hebrew ("Matchilim Sipur") by Ruth Achlama.

The book Conviction and Credence: US Policymaking in the Middle East focuses at how US administrations from Nixon to Bush have tried with little success to attain the goal of peace in the Middle East, how values have operated in the search for solutions, and how failed US policies have depended too much on the conventional wisdom of power politics. Chapter I addresses the philosophical approaches of Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Regan to peace. Chapter 2 focuses on how and why fundamentalism plays an important role in the area, thereby proving the need for a "new wisdom" on the part of US mediators. Chapter 3 examines how and when "conventional wisdom" worked to achieve peace and where it failed. Chapter 4 discusses the risks of Gulf thinking in the United States regarding "ally" and "enemy" patterns. Chapter 5 identifies how and why a "new wisdom" might provoke success for the United States in the Levant. Chapter 6 offers the Bush administration a prescriptive agenda to follow in the Middle East during the first half of this decade.

177 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: clean and tight copy. ISBN 1555871771.

To develop a new wisdom, we must thoroughly understand the strengths and weaknesses of the conventional wisdom that has determined US policemakers` actions and reactions in the recent past. US efforts to shape the peace process have, on occasion, earned it gratitude and a richer place in the world.
(Melvin A. Friedlander: Conviction and Credence: US Policymaking in the Middle East, page 17)

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cauldron of turmoil: America in the Middle East

In this book, Judaism and the Scientific Spirit, Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut indicates how Judaism and Science contribute to a better understanding and a more meaningful approach to the world. He expounds a frank yet critical and forthright approach to the interrelationship between Judaism and Science. He sees both in their broad perspectives as concerned with different aspects of life - science with the knowledge of the cosmos and religion with values that make life worthwhile.

The year 1633 was not a happy one for Western man. In Europe, Christians were locked in the bloody sectarian struggle of the Thirty Years War, which was then at its midpoint. In America, the colonists were battling desperately with nature and with the Indian, and had zealously transplanted to the New World the intolerance which they should have left behind in the Old. Eastern Europe was convulsed with internal upheavals, and soon the economic distress of the peasants and peons would erupt and find the hapless Jewish masses its first and foremost victim.
(Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut: Judaism and the Scientific Spirit, page 3)

A catalogue of the exhibition Head presenting Zvi Lachman's sculptures and drawings. The introduction is in both Hebrew and English.

The book Schindler's Ark tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a flamboyant German industrialists who saved the lives of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.

429 pages, paperback, good condition: pages are clean and tight, few pen markings on back cover.

In Poland`s deepest autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat, double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the laple of the dinner jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel swastika, emerged from a fashionable apartment block in Straszewskiego Street on the edge of the ancient centre of Cracow, and saw his chauffeur waiting with fuming breath by the open door of an enormous and, even in this blackened world, lustrous Adler limousine.

A.S. Helm was a soldier in the 2nd New Zaland Expeditionary Force during World War II. In this book - Fights and Furloughs in the Middle East - he gives an account of the early days of the Division and many aspects of active campaigning in Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Crete, Trans-Jordan, Syria, Irak and Iran. He enables the reader to appericiate something of the life of a soldier, and in addition, the recordings of actual experiences and observations about the conditions and characteristics of the people of the countries through which he had an opportunity of traelling.

301 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: tight book with some age signs to pages and cover. Rare book.

In September 1939 I was working in the Invercargill Post Office Savings Bank, and it was from there that I enlisted in the First Echelon entering camp as a signalman in the New Zeland Divisional Signals.
(A.S. Helm: Fights and Furloughs in the Middle East, page 3)

The book And the Violins Stopped Playing potrays the life and customs of the Lowland Gypsies and the story of the holocaust of the Gypsy people.

In The Border, Inge and Hans Wendler, a young Jewish couple, leave Vienna following the Anschluss. They go to Paris and then to the Spanish border. Their companion is Walter Benjamin. Their story is told through linked diaries, letters, interviews and poems, which potray the three main characters as they pursue their own love story to its end.

113 pages, paperback, 13.5cmX21.5cm, good condition: clean and tight copy with some yellowing to pages. ISBN 0-7145-2900-1.

The old woman`s hair was arranged carefully about her perfectly shaped skull like skeins of beige silk. As the boy hesitated, she chuckled, and rose briskly on her neat, stick legs to bring over two glasses and a bottle of cognac.

(Elaine Feinstein: The Border, page 11)

The tractate Sukkah with a commentary by Rabbi Pinhas Kehati. Translated from Hebrew by Rabbi Nahman Kahana and Rabbi Leonard Oschry.

134 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: clean and tight copy, some wear to jacket.

The tractate that follows deals primarily with the four mitzvot specifically assigned for the festival of Sukkot: (1) to dwell in the Sukkah, (2) the Arba Minim, four species, (3) Aravah, setting up willow branches at the side of the altar, and (4) Nisukh ha-Mayim, the water libation.

(R. Pinhas Kehati: Elucidated Mishnah Series: Sukkah, Introduction, page 9)

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Gemara Chapters on Damages

In his book From the Shtetl to the Shtot Nathan Peck tells his life story, combined by many stories and anecdotes, starting in Poland in 1925 and continuing in South Africa, a short period in Israel, and finally headed to the USA.

Bialystok was a highly organized Jewish community with a fantastic system of Hebrew and Yiddish schools and many institutions, charitable, educational, and others. This is worth noting at this point because the small villages like Bransk tended to duplicate these institutions on a smaller scale. This was certainly true of Bransk during the period when we lived there. Unfortunately though there would, within sixty-five years of my birth, be only one Jewish citizen left in Bialystok, and I would come to know him quite well, as he was to be our guide when I returned to Poland for a visit in 1989.

(Nathan Peck: From the Shtetl to the Shtot, page 13)

In the book Purity of Arms, Aaron Wolf, an American who became an Israeli citizen in 1985, chronicles his 18 months of military service in the Israeli army. This first-person narrative tells of a demanding training and of nerve-wracking patrols and ambushes on the West Bank and in Southern Lebanon. Wolf describes his unit's involvement in early stages of the "sticks and stones war" - the Intifada.

227 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition. ISBN 0-385-260369.

This is the forty-second hour and I am still awake. WE have cleared the road five miles in one direction and now we are clearing it on the way back. We are moving in a T-formation. The guys on the flanks are checking for wires, booby traps, or mines.

(Aaron Wolf: A Purity of Arms - An American in the Israeli Army, page 3)

The major theme of this book is that one of the best ways to approach the study of Jewish society and history - from its beginnings up to the contemporary scene in general, and Israel in particular - is by analyzing it as the history of a civilization. I use the term civilization bbecause I wish to stress explicitly that such concepts as religion, nation, and people are not adequate for an understanding of Jewish history, although, needless to say, they all refer to important aspects of the Jewish historical experience.

(S.N. Eisenstadt, Jewish Civilization: The Jewish Historical Experience in a Comparative Perspective, page 5)

The Jerusalem Diet is a book about why we eat, and why we diet; why we overeat and then deprive ourselves; why, finally, we fail to feed and satisfy the person we really wish ourselves to be. This is not a diet book in any conventional sense of the word, even though it contains many practical tips for losing weight and maintaining weight loss. Rather, it is a book about appetite - our appetite for life, and how we can maintain it in the healthiest and most personally useful ways. Change comes about because we believe it is possible, because we allow ourselves to imagine it. Through a process called imaging or guided visualization, The Jerusalem Diet helps readers tap into their own abilities to imagine the future and transform their relationship to food.

- I`ve worked hard today: I deserve some coffee and cake - or a candy bar, or a bag of potato chips, or... you name it! - whatever else seems to constitute that special treat we crave.
(Judith Besserman, Emily Budick: The Jerusalem Diet, Page 1)

The book Ben Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs offers insight into the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict by examining the role of one of its major protagonists, David Ben Gurion. In the forty-two years between 1921 and 1963 - during which he served as Labor leader, Zionist statesman, and Prime Minister - Ben Gurion's influence came to have a decisive impact upon Jewish policy. Shabtai Teveth delves below the surface of Ben Gurion's public and diplomatic stance, examining his diaries and letters and the minutes of closed meetings. On the basis of this new evidence, Teveth gives us a fresh understanding of the man who has long been regarded as harsh and uncompromising, showing that Ben Gurion was in face the ultimate pragmatist, who played the roles of peacemaker and militant alternately and at times even simultaneously.

234 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition. ISBN 0-19-503562-3.

David Ben Gurion, born in Plonsk, Poland, in 1886, described himself as a Zionist from birth. At the age of three, he learned Hebrew on his grandfather`s lap and began to read the Old Testament before he attended the traditional heder. It was then that he first heard from his father about Eretz Israel - the Land of Israel, Palestine.

(Shabtai Teveth: Ben Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs, page 3)

The book Religious and Secular: Conflict and Accommodation between Jews in Israel comprises a series of case studies, written especially for this book, focusing on relationships between religious and non-religious Jews in Israel in a variety of settings. From the Table of Contents: Amnon Levi: The Haredi Press and Secular Society. Naomi Gutkind-Golan: Mixed Communal Settlements. Asher Cohen: Political Partners: Relations between Religious and Non-Reigious in One Political Party. Leonard Weller and Sonia Topper Weller: Strange Bedfellows: A Study of Mixed Religious Marriages. and more.

רוצים לבצע הזמנה טלפונית? שילחו לנו את מספר הטלפון שלכם ואנו נתקשר אליכם בהקדם. המחיר למשלמים בשקלים: 60 ש"ח + 10 ש"ח משלוח בדואר