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Free Download Sheila E. Jelen, "Israeli Salvage Poetics "
English | ISBN: 0814348971 | 2023 | 242 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Through thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the "negation of the diaspora" as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from the eve of the Holocaust to the present day. Author Sheila E. Jelen considers the way that Israeli writers from eastern Europe or of eastern European descent incorporate pre-Holocaust eastern European culture into their own sense of Israeliness or Jewishness. Many Israelis interested in their eastern European legacy live with an awareness of their own nation’s role in the repression of that legacy, from the elevation of Hebrew over Yiddish to the ridicule and resentment directed at culture, text, and folk traditions from eastern Europe. To right the wrongs of the past and reconcile this conflict of identity, the Israeli authors discussed in this book engage in what Jelen calls "salvage poetics": they read Yiddish literature, travel to eastern Europe, and write of their personal and generational relationships with Ashkenazi culture. Israeli literary representations of eastern European Jewry strive, sometimes successfully, to recuperate eastern European Jewish pre-Holocaust culture for the edification of an audience that might feel responsible for the silencing and extinction of that culture.

Free Download Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century
by Melissa Weininger
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0814350607 | 216 Pages | True ePUB | 3 MB

Free Download Kimmy Caplan, "Contemporary Israeli Haredi Society "
English | ISBN: 1032325585 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1251 KB + 928 KB
This edited volume offers profiles of contemporary Israeli Haredi (i.e., Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) society from several disciplinary points of view, resisting a generalized approach and examining the different, sometimes competing currents, that define it.

Free Download Hayah Katz, "The Changing Landscape of Israeli Archaeology "
English | ISBN: 1032487143 | 2023 | 140 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 22 MB
Focused on the connections between archaeology and Israeli society, this book examines the development of Israeli archaeological research, taking historical, sociological, and political contexts into account.

Free Download The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled, Audible Studios
English | 2015 | ISBN: B01787TUWQ | Format: Opus / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 8 hours and 35 minutes | 113 Mb
In 1997, a tragedy struck the family of Israeli-American Miko Peled: His beloved niece Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem. That tragedy propelled Peled onto a journey of discovery. It pushed him to re-examine many of the beliefs he had grown up with, as the son and grandson of leading figures in Israel’s political-military elite, and transformed him into a courageous and visionary activist in the struggle for human rights and a hopeful, lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
The journey that Peled traces in this groundbreaking memoir echoed the trajectory taken 40 years earlier by his father, renowned Israeli general Matti Peled. In The General’s Son, Miko Peled tells us about growing up in Jerusalem in the heart of the group that ruled the then-young country, Israel. He takes us with him through his service in the country’s military and his subsequent global travels…and then, after his niece’s killing, back into the heart of Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians. The book provides a compelling and intimate window into the fears that haunt both peoples – but also into the real courage of all those who, like Miko Peled, have been pursuing a steadfast grassroots struggle for equality for all the residents of the Holy Land.

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Free Download Alan Dershowitz (Author, Narrator), "The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can Be Resolved"
English | ASIN: B000BKHEVC | 2005 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:21:00 | 181 MB
New York Times best-selling author Alan Dershowitz presents a persuasive roadmap for achieving a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine. As he did in his widely acclaimed work The Case for Israel, the renowned defender of civil liberties offers compelling, and sometimes controversial, solutions for ending this bloody, divisive conflict.
Dershowitz maintains that, following the death of Yassar Arafat and the democratic election of Mahmoud Abbas, the time is ripe to let go of old assumptions and embrace new solutions. The challenge, too, is not only to achieve peace, but to do it without further loss of life in the region.

Free Download Roman Katsman, "Studies in the History of Russian-Israeli Literature "
English | ASIN : B0C2CFZ487 | 2022 | 432 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studies are devoted to an overview of the literary process and the activities of its participants, others―to individual genres and movements. As a result, a complex and multifaceted picture emerges of a not quite fully defined, but very lively and dynamic community that develops in the most difficult conditions. The contributors trace the paths of Russian-Israeli prose, poetry and drama, various waves of avant-garde, fantasy, and critical thought. Today, in Russian-Israeli literature, the voices of writers of various generations and waves of repatriation are intertwined: from the "seventies" to the "war

Free Download A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism by Daniel Byman
English | June 15th, 2011 | ISBN: 0195391829, 019993178X | 464 pages | True EPUB | 4.47 MB
The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel’s bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups.

Free Download Guy Burton, "Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947"
English | ISBN: 1498551955 | 2018 | 206 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
What has been the role of rising powers in the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as rising powers’ behavior in the world more generally? This book studies the way that five rising powers-Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS countries-have approached the conflict since it first became internationalized in 1947.

Free Download Fajer Al-Kaisi, "Native: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life"
English | 2016 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 0802126294, 0802124550 | EPUB | 3,2 mb
Sayed Kashua has been praised by The New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society". An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to telling the Palestinian story and exploring the contradictions of modern Israel while also capturing the nuances of everyday family life in all its tenderness and chaos.