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The story of the Cass family's move from Massachusetts to Israel. The book mirrors the feelings More... |
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The story of the Cass family's move from Massachusetts to Israel. The book mirrors the feelings of each of them in breaking out of their accustomed grooves and discovering a new world - both outrageously irritating and magnificent.
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| Publisher: | Dvir Katzman, Tel Aviv,1979 |
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287 pages, paperback, 16cm tall, good- condition: book is tight but pages are browned.
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ISRAEL!?
Six weeks earlier I had with difficulty located it on the map; and here we were in October 1970 living in Carmiel, a development town in the Galilee, ringed by Arab villages carved on mountain slopes. Israel - is real, I would tell myself as I stood on the tiny balcony of our Absorption Center apartment looking at the donkeys nibbling among the juice cans and other rubble of the messy lot that divided our sleeping and dining quarters from a similar row of buildings opposite where er attended our daily Hebrew classes. Israel was an unknown quantity to me, totally outside the context of our former lives. Not only were we not lifelong Zionists, we didn't even belong to a Temple. We had backed into this country diverted from a projected tour of Peace Corps duty in Uruguay. |
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For Wendy Orange, an American Jewish writer, what starts as a ten-day conference in Jerusalem More... |
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For Wendy Orange, an American Jewish writer, what starts as a ten-day conference in Jerusalem stretches into a six-year residence in Jerusalem, where she undertakes an illuminating and evocative trip to both banks and experiences amid language barriers, household drama, homesickness, a halting job search and a connection with wide assortment of varied personalities.
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| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster, New York,2000 |
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304 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition.
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Once off the plane Michael hails a taki to drive us to Jerusalem. Our Driver turns out to be a man with whom Michael once studied Hebrew, a man named Shuki.
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A journey over land and through history. Kaplan ventures from the famed archaeological ruins of More... |
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A journey over land and through history. Kaplan ventures from the famed archaeological ruins of Syria to the markets of Lebanon to the military outposts of Turkey and Israel; from Baku, capital of new business and new oil, across the Caspian Sea to the deserts of Turkmenistan and back to the killing fields of Armenia.
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| Publisher: | Random House, New York,2000 |
| Additional Details: | 364 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition. |
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The scent of plum brandy and red wine mixed with the mildew and dust from old books and maps. It was ten in the morning, February 17, 1998. I was in an apartment in the drab eastern outskirts of Budapest. My host, Rudolf Fischer, suggested that we start drinking. ``The Silovitz is kosher - look at the Hebrew label! And the wine is young - from a barrel in Villanyi, in southern Hungary. It will rest easy in your stomach and loosen our tongues.``
Peasant rugs, folkloric weavings, and other Balkan bric-a-brac filled Fischer`s small living room, which also functioned as his library. |
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A.S. Helm was a soldier in the 2nd New Zaland Expeditionary Force during World War II. In More... |
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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.
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| Publisher: | whitcombe & tombs , |
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301 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: tight book with some age signs to pages and cover. Rare book.
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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) |
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Charles William Wilson was a royal Engineer in the British army. He also was one of the foremost More... |
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Charles William Wilson was a royal Engineer in the British army. He also was one of the foremost explorers of Jerusalem. The book Jerusalem - The Holy City is reprinted from his book originally published in 1880, under the title Picturesque Palestine and authentically describes the Jerusalem of the 19th century. The book is illustrated with spectacular engravings throughout. Introduction by Zev Vilnay |
| Publisher: | Ariel, Jerusalem, |
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120 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, 28cm tall, good condition: pages are white, clean and tight, covers are clean and strong, jacket is good but with some tears, gift inscription.
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Jerusalem is emphatically a mountain city. Situated in the heart of the hill country which extends from the great plain of Esdraelon to the southern extremity of the Promised Land, surrounded on all sides by limestone hills whose surface is broken by countless ravines, and only approached by rough mountain roads, its position is one of great natural strength.
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Bartlett, an English painter, paid a third visit to the Holy Land in 1854. His purpose was to More... |
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Bartlett, an English painter, paid a third visit to the Holy Land in 1854. His purpose was to revisit familiar sites and discover new ones. This time Bartlett sought out not only picturesque scenes but also sketched the various types of Jerusalem's colorful population and described their background, the relation between the different ethnic groups as well as their main shrines and inllustrations. Introduction by Zev Vilnay.
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| Publisher: | Ariel, Jerusalem, |
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202 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages are clean and tight, some tears to jacket.
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On the 10th of June, 1853, I turned my face a second time towards the walls of Jerusalem, uncertain whether war might not be on the very point of breaking out.
Another book you may enjoy: Jerusalem Bethany and Bethlehem / J.L. Porter |
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A book of letters depicting life in Israel in the years 1953-1954 as lived by an More... |
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A book of letters depicting life in Israel in the years 1953-1954 as lived by an American woman whose husband was employed in Jerusalem |
| Publisher: | Abelard-Schuman, New York,1957 |
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To my mother / June 21, 1953: |
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Letters from a young American woman who came to the Hebrew University in 1947 intending to study More... |
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Letters from a young American woman who came to the Hebrew University in 1947 intending to study for a year, but found herself caught up in Israel's War of Independence. Recruited into the Haganah, she served as a nurse through the siege of Jerusalem, and stayed on. The letters describe her impressions and feelings as she faced the dramatic events.
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| Publisher: | Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel, Jerusalem,1987 |
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At sea
September 28, 1947 Dearest Mother, Dad and Naomi,
First day at sea and all's well. Leaving your waving handkerchiefs behind, the boat made a mad dash from Pier 84 out into New York Harbor, only to anchor there stock-still till after midnight, literally hitched to the Statue of Liberty. Apparently, something went wrong with the engine or the electricity. There were even rumors that we might have to turn around and head back to starting point, but thanks to the good old U.S. Navy we were fixed up shipshape and set out for rough waters.
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A book of poems - some serious, some in jest, the record the author's impressions of More... |
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A book of poems - some serious, some in jest, the record the author's impressions of Israel and the Israelis as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. At the time of his visit in Israel the author served as the governor of Pennsylvania, USA.
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| Publisher: | M.J.S. Publishing Company, USA,1973 |
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65 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, 8''X9.5'', good condition: some wear to jacket.
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In the old city of Jerusalem / A synagogue, Mosque and Church / Stand virtually side by side.
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Accounts on Israel and its people written from the viewpoint of a visiting English novelist. More... |
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Accounts on Israel and its people written from the viewpoint of a visiting English novelist. Beginning with a colorful evocation of life in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, David Pryce-Jones moves on to describe Ada, a mysterious German refugee, in `Eilat` he recreates an oasis colony of young people whose confused objectives sometimes lead to violence and a fool`s death, and in `Yossele Schumacher` he recounts the story of the famous kidnapping. `Some Arabs` compassionately potrays the lot of those Arabs who could or wuold not flee Israel. Among other characters pictures here are the young German who tries to atone for his country`s guilt, the members of a middle-class immigrant family who find life on the collective farm too rigorous, Commenting on the Eichmann case, the author illuminates that play of forces which transformed the trial into an historic lesson for the young. |
| Publisher: | Holt, Reinhart and Winston,1964 |
| Additional Details: | 195 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition. |
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The meeting point of Haifa is the observation platform in the middle of Panorama Road. It is always crowded. People come casually to stare at the most spectacular sweep of the Mediterranean in Israel, and go away surfeited. It is a purpose in itself. Almost every day, a very old man, accompanied by two students from a neighbouring yeshiva, comes there to read on one of the benches.
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What's next with Israel? To try to answer that question, the author traveled from Texas to More... |
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What's next with Israel? To try to answer that question, the author traveled from Texas to Israel. He spent two years interviewing Israelis and studying the nation. This book brings some of the conversations and ends with the author's conclusion.
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| Publisher: | Hesed & Shalom, Jerusalem,2000 |
| Additional Details: | 211 pages, soft cover, very good condition: a crease to front cover. Inscribed by the author. Rare book. |
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At Limmesol, Cyprus, I boarded the Nissos Kippros with my car for the thirteen-hour trip to Haifa. The ship was crowded, over 500 passengers, so I took a seat where I could find one, outdoors on the port side near the stem. The weather was perfect, a gentle breeze, blue skies, and quiet blue water. I looked forward to a pleasant evening of conversation. On my left were five men who appeared to be in their early twenties, talking excitedly in Arabic. One of them spoke to me in English, "Where are you from?"
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When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson to put off a trip to More... |
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When fast-breaking political events forced British novelist Jacobson to put off a trip to Lithuania planned as a search for his Jewish roots, he accepted an offer from the BBC to visit Jewish communities around the globe instead. This informed and witty account of his experiences deals with the wide variety of contemporary Jewish life, as well as with how Jacobson's observations affected his own concept of what it means to be a Jew. Riding an emotional roller coaster, he witnessed the hostility between Jews and African Americans in New York City, attended services in a gay synagogue in California and found his basic cynicism about religion reinforced after he spent time with Orthodox Jews in Israel, although his spirits were lifted by a visit to an idealistic, tolerant Israeli kibbutz. His journey concluded with the postponed trip to Lithuania, where the author found virulent anti-Semitism.
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| Publisher: | Penguin Books, London,1993 |
| Opening: | "div s"yle=""ex"-align: jus"ify">'A lo" of Jews who "hink "hey're Jewish are no",' Lenny Bruce used "o swee"-"alk his audience, '"hey're swi"ched babies.'"br /> I "hough" of "ha" one a long "ime before Lenny Bruce did, bu" i" never s"ruck me as funny. I suspec"ed I was a swi"ched baby because I didn'" feel Jewish. Somewhere ou" "here in "he gen"ile badlands, in "he killing fields of Pendlebury or Harpurhey, "he kid who was really me was singing &quo";Gen"le Jesus, meek and mils,' and following "he virgin in "he Whi" Sunday walks, sure in his hear" "ha" he wasn'" Chris"ian."/div> |
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Erna Paris journeyed throughout Israel and with an adept blending of interviews, observations, More... |
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Erna Paris journeyed throughout Israel and with an adept blending of interviews, observations, and popular history, she imparts the flavour of this ancient country and its people and at the same time examines how the past has shaped the present conflicts. Paris talked to descendants of the original Zionist settlers and to Jewish-American hippies who founded an "ideal" kibbutz based on their sixties values; to the religiouslt liberal and the ultra-Orthodox; to the political moderates and the hardliners, both Arab and Israeli.
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| Publisher: | Lester & Orpen Dennys, Canada,1988 |
| Additional Details: | 292 pages, paperback, good condition. ISBN 0-88619-121-1. |
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The security for Pam Am flight 114 from Paris to Tel Aviv left me feeling nervous. The police were there all right, outfitted with their rifles and bullet-proof vests, but my checked baggage went through the most perfunctory of X-ray scans. The hand luggage security was even more lax. A cheerful agent joked with her colleagues of grenades in suitcases - while my bag slid past without as much as a sideways glance.
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A colorful and compelling portrait of Israel, and of the different faces of the Israelis. Table More... |
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A colorful and compelling portrait of Israel, and of the different faces of the Israelis. Table of Contents: One of the World's Most Volatile Neighborhoods. Dating and Mating Israeli-Style. A People's Army. Swords into Stock Shares. The Ashkenazim: Israel's "WASPS". The Mizrahim: The Other Israelis. The Russians: The New Exodus. Out of Africa: Ethiopian Israelis in the Promised Land. The Haredim: Jewish-Jewish-Jewish. The Orthodox: This Land is Your Land? This Land Is My Land! The Non-Orthodox: War of the Cheeseburgers. The Muslims: Abraham's Other Children. The Bedouin: Tribes, Tents, and Satellite Dishes. The Druze: Between Modernity and Tradition. The Christians: Uneasy in the Land of Jesus. Marriage, Polygamy, Adultery, and Divorce Israeli-Style. Oy! Gay?. Hookers and Hash in the Holy Land.
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| Publisher: | Free Press, New York,2003 |
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466 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: clean and tight book. ISBN 0-684-86972-1.
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Rahamim Zidkiyahu, a fanatic soccer fan, tried convincing his boss to let him drive an earlier bus so he could get home in time to watch the World Cup match between Japan and Turkey. His boss refused. When the scheduled driver was late, Rahamim felt God was smiling on him. He eagerly volunteered to drive it. On the morning of June 18, 2002, Jerusalem's bus 32A was packed with schoolchildren and commuters.
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Charles William Wilson was a Royal Engineer in the British army. The brief military task to More... |
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Charles William Wilson was a Royal Engineer in the British army. The brief military task to which he was assigned was transformed over the years into a sincere and passionate love of the Holy Land, and he engaged himself in research thruoghout the rest of his life. This book about Galilee and the northern part of Israel was written by Wilson in 1880. Introduction by Zev Vilnay.
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| Publisher: | Ariel, Jerusalem,1975 |
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156 pages, hardcover, NO dust jacket, 8.5''X11'', good condition: clean and tight copy.
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There are few places even in Palestine in which, within so narrow a compass, so many interesting associations are centred, or where the history of the past is so vividly illustrated, as in the narrow Vale of Shechem, which is formed by the near approach of the two terraced mountain ridges of Ebal and Gerizim; and certainly there is no spot throughout the Holy Land which can rival it in beauty.
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This book is the result of George Mikes' visit in Israel. Mikes looks at the old problems: Arab More... |
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This book is the result of George Mikes' visit in Israel. Mikes looks at the old problems: Arab hostility, the Palestinian refugees; and at the new ones created by the Six Day War, like the occupied territories and the changing attitudes of the outside world. At the same time, he shows that like other countries, Israel is concerned not only with the big problems but also with the small ones - like getting its citizen to drink more alcohol and living up to the expectations of American tourists. The book is illustrated by Jossi Stern.
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| Publisher: | Steimatzky's Agency & Andre Deutsch, Israel,1969 |
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158 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages are clean and tight, small tears to jacket.
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Nothing much has changed at Lydda, except that now it is called Lod. Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
Have the Israelis changed in one important respect, I wondered? Have they become just a shade more modest or are they still full of true admiration for themselves? Their achievements, I knew, were considerable; but their own admiration for them used to be greater still. It was no formal, empty courtesy when they patted themselves on the back. Their eyes lit up whenever this one subject was mentioned: Israel. Their admiration was not put on; it was no affectation: they genuinely loved and revered themselves. There was no need — I recalled — for any visitor to utter courteous little phrases about the Land: his hosts did all that was needed for him.
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The author's encounters with religious life, problems and personalities in modern More... |
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The author's encounters with religious life, problems and personalities in modern Israel. |
| Publisher: | The Jewish Publication Society of America,1961 |
| Additional Details: | 312 pages, paperback, good condition. |
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A frequent sight in the Mid-East are hillocks so rounded as to be obviously man-made. They are called tels in Hebrew or Arabic - remains of civilizations piled strata on strata, waiting for the archaeologist`s dig.
Even children in Israel know the technique of the dig. One selects a promising site, perhaps on top of a tel. Then carefully, with pick, shovel, and brush, a hole is dug in the hope that material will be found revealing something interesting about the conditions and quality of life which once existed about this location. In a sense our effort here is to make a series of digs. Journalistic excavations, so to speak, into the life of modern Israel`s major religious communities. There would seem to be no lack of interesting sites to begin with. |
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An intimate portrait of Israel. Sedych came to Israel as a tourist. He walked through the More... |
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An intimate portrait of Israel. Sedych came to Israel as a tourist. He walked through the crowded marketplace of the ancient port of Jaffa; saw Acre, the walled city of the Crusaders; crossed the arid desert of Negev; swam in the bitter waters of the Dead Sea. He tells the tragic story of Masada—the last stand of the Jews against Rome; of amazing encounters with Hasidim in Jerusalem; about life in the kibbutzim threatened by Syrian guns, and of a long, revealing, and delightful interview with Ben Gurion. Together with him the reader visits the exotic temple of the Bahai in Haifa, the mystical city of Safad, the unique synagogues in Jerusalem, and relaxes with him on a cafe terrace in Tel Aviv. Translated from the Russian.
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| Publisher: | The Macmillan Company, New York,1967 |
| Additional Details: | 244 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition. |
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In times gone by a pilgrimage to the Holy Land went on for months, even years. People came by boat, traveled from island to island, waited for favorable winds, and went out of their way to avoid harassment by pirates. When their eyes finally saw the shores of the Promised Land, the pilgrims would fall on their knees, shed tears of joy, and thank the Lord for having grant them a sight of the Gates of Zion.
The pilgrim of today has less time. His flight is nonstop; he probably has only twenty-one days at his disposal. Why does he go to this land of Israel? Probably for the same reasons that people have always gone to Palestine. Today there is an additional reason: the desire to witness the miracle of the Jewish state reborn 1,900 years after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and brought an end to the Kingdom of Judea. |
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Saul Bellow came to Israel on 1976 for a four-month stay. In the course of his wandering More... |
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Saul Bellow came to Israel on 1976 for a four-month stay. In the course of his wandering round Jerusalem and expeditions outside the city he talked to people from every walk of life: The Prime minister and members of his cabinet; a barber; the Armenian Archbishop; a friend who had lost a son in the Six Day War and his own cousins from Tel Aviv; a Greek bookseller and the Arab newspaper owner… The result is an intensely personal journal.
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| Publisher: | Secker & Warburg, London,1976 |
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182 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. Good condition.
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Security measures are strict on flights to Israel, the bags are searched, the men are frisked, and the women have an electronic hoop passed over them, fore and aft. Then hand luggage is opened. No one is very patient.
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"quot;eith"#39;s memoirs of a trip to the Holy Land she and about 50 other Canadian took in More... |
| Content: | "quot;eith"#39;s memoirs of a trip to the Holy Land she and about 50 other Canadian took in 1925. |
| Publisher: | McClelland and Stewart, Toronto,1927. 1st edition |
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175 pages, hardcover, good condition: some age wear, gift inscription, a stamp indicating the this copy is rom the library of Prof. Binjamin Mazar (an important biblical archaeologist)
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We were all up and out on deck early that morning, even the girls. There seemed to be an air of expectancy in the spacious stillness of sky and sea. The Cheops was sliding gently over the polished blue floor of the Mediterranean; the Pilgrims were all leaning over the rail gazing ahead. For McTurk had warned us that, shortly after sunrise, we would get our first glimpse of the Land.
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