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  • Impossible Exodus

    Iraqi Jews in Israel

    by Orit Bashkin ...
    "An exceptional exposé of the sufferings of the Iraqi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel during the 1950s." —Övg Ülgen, ShofarBetween 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Jewish Politics

    A Global Perspective

    by Nathaniel Deutsch, Alma Rachel Heckman, Tony Michels, Anna Elena Torres, Bob Weinberg, Dario Miccoli, Michael Rom, Rami Ginat0, Michael Casper1, Milton Shain2, Richard Mendelsohn3, Kamilia Rahmouni4, Peter Kenez5, Arie Dubnov6, Kostis Karpozilos7, Paris Papamichos Chronakis8, Orit Bashkin9, Avery Weinman0, Pierre-Jean Le Foll-Luciani1, Jane Theresa Kuntz2, Lior Sternfeld3 ...
    For the first time, this volume centers the rich but little known history of radical Jewish politics in the Middle East and North Africa and puts it into conversation with developments in the Americas, South Africa, Soviet Asia, and Europe. Jews were attracted to radical politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to transform the societies they lived in but also out of a deep desire to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • New Babylonians

    A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

    by Orit Bashkin ...
    Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community—which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years—was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban Arab culture, and their hopes for a democratic nation-state. It studies their ideas about Judaism, Islam, secularism, modernity, and reform, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Demodernization

    A Future in the Past

    by Yakov Rabkin, Mikhail Minakov, Fabian Zuk, Philippe Genequand, Francisco Rivera, Orit Bashkin, Detlev Quintern, Hitoshi Suzuki, Ilan Pappé0, Guy Lanoue1, Richard Foltz2, Marc Jeandesboz3, Olivier Bauer4, Jo-Ansie van Wyk5, Meir Amor6, Jean-Luc Gautero7, Marc Goetzmann8, Bertrand Cochard9 ...
    Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants—these images became common at the turn of the 21st century in many once modern “civilized” countries. In quite a few of them, long-time neighbours came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered differences of religion, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Impossible Exodus

    Iraqi Jews in Israel

    by Orit Bashkin ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Between 1949 and 1951, 123,000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state. Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty. In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary. Basic necessities like water were in short supply, when they were available ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Jews and Journeys

    Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity

    Edited by Joshua Levinson, Orit Bashkin ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Jews and Journeys

    Travel and the Performance of Jewish Identity

    Edited by Joshua Levinson, Orit Bashkin ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Israel

    A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

    by Daniel Gordis ...
    Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year AwardThe first comprehensive yet accessible political history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, "one of the most respected Israel analysts" (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem.In the landscape of Middle East history, Israel is a tiny state, and yet it has captured the world’s attention, aroused its ... Read more

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  • The Case for Israel

    by Alan Dershowitz ...
    The Case for Israel is an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence.Presents a passionate look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country.Dershowitz accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument with hard facts.Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Lethal Obsession

    Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad

    by Robert S. Wistrich ...
    In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and widespread resurgence in the present day. As no other book has done before it, A Lethal Obsession reveals the causes behind this shameful and persistent form of hatred and offers a sobering look ... Read more

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  • One State, Two States

    Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict

    by Prof. Benny Morris ...
    “What is so striking about Morris’s work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone’s prejudices, least of all his own,” David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris’s 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. With the same commitment to objectivity that has consistently characterized his approach, Morris now turns his attention to ... Read more

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  • Contested Land, Contested Memory

    Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe

    by Jo Roberts ...
    1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.After a war, the victors write history. How was the story of the exiled Palestinians erased -- from textbooks, maps, even the land? How do Jewish and ... Read more

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