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One Palestine, Complete
Henry Holt and Co. 2013; US$ 25.99A panoramic and provocative history of life in Palestine during the three strife-torn but romantic decades when Britain ruled and the seeds of today's conflicts were sown Tom Segev's acclaimed works, 1949 and The Seventh Million , overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now Segev explores the dramatic period before the creation of... more...
Company C
Argo-Navis 2012; US$ 4.99When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory service, was assigned to Company C, the reserve infantry unit that would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who had never aspired to military adventure, was a... more...
A Crack in the Earth
Argo-Navis 2012; US$ 4.99The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon, was ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And for a quarter of a century it has been part of the biography of Israeli writer... more...
Elvis in Jerusalem
Henry Holt and Co. 2003; US$ 7.99As the Middle East conflict enters its most violent phase, Tom Segev offers a lively, contentious polemic against cherished and rigid notions of Israel's national unity and culture. In his many works of history, Tom Segev has challenged the entrenched understanding of crucial moments in Israel's past. Now, in a short, sharp, polemical book, Segev... more...
Freud in Zion
Karnac Books 2012; US$ 25.95Freud in Zion tells the story of psychoanalysis coming to Jewish Palestine/Israel. In this ground-breaking study psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik explores the encounter between psychoanalysis, Judaism, Modern Hebrew culture and the Zionist revolution in a unique political and cultural context of war, immigration, ethnic tensions, colonial rule... more...
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine
Columbia University Press 1991; US$ 44.99In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinian people, including drawing a border between Israel and Palestine, dividing Jerusalem,... more...
Young Tel Aviv
Brandeis University Press 2012; US$ 28.99Fascinating revisionist history of Jewish life in Tel Aviv in the Mandate era more...
Sleeping on a Wire
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003; US$ 18.99Israel describes itself as a Jewish state. What, then, is the status of the one-fifth of its citizens who are not Jewish? Are they Israelis, or are they Palestinians? Or are they a people without a country? How will a Palestinian state?if it is established?influence the sense of belonging and identity of Palestinian Israeli citizens? Based on conversations... more...
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