Last Updated on 29-January-2012 at 10:24
Welcome to Itamar's Bookstore
(The Promised Book Land)
Here you will find a selection of  Israeli and Jewish books.
We are here to answer your questions,
Take your orders, and find the books you are looking for.


Recommended Book
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
By Harold Kushner

This classic book reflects the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes, and man is faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God?

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Israeli News & Old Books

Israel is facing a heating debate over the segregation of women from the public sphere
There has never been a better time to read:
Jewish and Female
A sourcebook of how to combine the imperatives of Judaism and individual female self respect.


 

This Week In Israeli and Jewish History

6 February, 1962
Marc Chagall's stained glass windows "The Twelve Tribes of Israel" are installed in the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
 
7 February, 1898
Emile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse, in which he accused the highest levels of the French Army of having wrongfully convicted Alfred Dreyfus.
Reading suggestion: The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus
 
8 February, 1878
Philosopher Martin Buber is born.
 
9 February, 1925
Official opening ceremony of The Technion, the first Hebrew institution of higher education is held.
 
10 February, 1986
Anatoly Sharansky, leading Soviet refusnik, is released from prison and exchanged in Berlin for persons held by the West.
 
11 February, 1953
Russia broke diplomatic relations with Israel after a bomb exploded in the courtyard of the Soviet embassy in Tel Aviv. The relations were restored on July 20.
(In the picture: Joseph Stalin)
 
12 February, 1942
Abraham Stern (Yair), the leader of Lehi (the "Stern Gang" by the British colonial authorities), is killed in his hiding place in Tel Aviv by the British police.
Reading suggestion: Memoirs of an assassin
 

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget. (William Phelps)



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