Select Non-Fiction
Between ruin and restoration: an environmental history of Israel by Publication Date: 2012
Culture and customs of Israel by Publication Date: 2004
Defining Israel : the Jewish state, democracy, and the law by Publication Date: 2018
In Search of Israel by
A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should be Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and the heart of a prosperous new Middle East. It is this paradox, says historian Michael Brenner--the Jewish people's wish for a homeland both normal and exceptional--that shapes Israel's ongoing struggle to define itself and secure a place among nations. In Search of Israel is a major new history of this struggle from the late nineteenth century to our time. When Theodor Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress in 1897, no single solution to the problem of "normalizing" the Jewish people emerged. Herzl proposed a secular-liberal "New Society" that would be home to Jews and non-Jews alike. East European Zionists advocated the renewal of the Hebrew language and the creation of a distinct Jewish culture. Socialists imagined a society of workers' collectives and farm settlements. The Orthodox dreamt of a society based on the laws of Jewish scripture. The stage was set for a clash of Zionist dreams and Israeli realities that continues today. Seventy years after its founding, Israel has achieved much, but for a state widely viewed as either a paragon or a pariah, Brenner argues, the goal of becoming a state like any other remains elusive. If the Jews were the archetypal "other" in history, ironically, Israel--which so much wanted to avoid the stamp of otherness--has become the Jew among the nations.
ISBN: 9781400889211Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Israel's Jewish identity crisis by Publication Date: 2020
One people, one blood Ethiopian-Israelis and the return to Judaism by Publication Date: 2009
Trouble in the tribe: the American Jewish conflict over Israel by Publication Date: 2016
Select Fiction by Israeli Authors
Twenty-One stories by Publication Date: 1970
The Hilltop: a novel by Publication Date: 2014
Apples from the desert: selected stories by Publication Date: 1998
A tale of love and darkness by Publication Date: 2005
Language and Literature
- Academy of the Hebrew Language Investigates and compiles the Hebrew lexicon according to its historical strata and layers, to study the structure, history, and offshoots of the Hebrew language and to direct the development of Hebrew in light of its nature, requirements, and potential and its daily and academic needs.
- Institute for the Translation of Human Literature Acquaints foreign readers with the best of modern Hebrew literature. Over the years, the range of its activities has expanded far beyond translation. Concurrently, and largely in response to the work of ITHL, international interest in Hebrew literature has grown significantly. At present, Hebrew literature is published in 72 languages!
Map of Israel
Israel Studies Journals
Databases
- ATLA Religion Database (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowResearch scholarly articles and books on biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. Links to full text for Northeastern-subscribed materials.
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowSelected e-books in the Cambridge Histories series. Stable links to PDFs of books and book chapters can be put in Canvas, email, or other sharing with the Northeastern community. Printing: one chapter at a time
- Gale In Context: Global Issues This link opens in a new windowCourtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. - Index to Jewish Periodicals WITH Jewish Studies Source (EbscoHOST) This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts to English-language articles and book reviews on Jewish history, activity and thought in more than 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs, combined with full text periodicals in Jewish Studies Source.
Documentaries- Check Scholar One Search for more titles
- And then there was Israel. 2019 Examines the creation of the State of Israel and looks at the history of Zionism (1896-1948) under the very specific angle of the responsibility of the western world.
- Black Israel. 2002 This film is a vibrant portrait of pluralistic 21st-century Jewish identities across the globe. It documents Africans and African-Americans who live in Israel and practice Judaism there.
- Winding WINDING presents the untold story of the most infamous river in Israel, the Yarkon, as it meanders through a politicized landscape and flows through the heart of Israeli society, exploring the interplay between society, politics and nature.
Websites
- Israel Association of Ethiopian Jews "The Ethiopian Jewish Association has been active since 1993, and is the most central and oldest organization of Israelis of Ethiopian descent, seeking to influence and promote an egalitarian policy in Israeli society."