Israel + Palestine

Book Reviews

• David Aberbach: Imperialism and Biblical Prophecy, 750-500 BCE
  - the Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
• Simeon D. Baumel: Sacred Speakers
  Language and Culture among the Haredim in Israel
• Marc Zvi Brettler: The Creation of History in Ancient Israel*
  - the biblical authors and their presentations of the past
• Sayed Kashua: Let It Be Morning
  - everyday life confronts geopolitics in an Arab Israeli village
• Mario Liverani: Israel's History and the History of Israel**
  - ancient histories, normal and invented
• Nur Masalha: Catastrophe Remembered
  Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees
• Ilan Pappe: A History of Modern Palestine*
  One Land, Two Peoples
• Donald B. Redford: Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times
  - from prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
• Igal Sarna: Broken Promises: Israeli Lives
  - fourteen short biographical vignettes
• S. Yizhar: Khirbet Khizeh*
  - evicting a Palestinian village in 1948

See also: Egypt + North Africa | Hebrew + Yiddish literature | Judaism | Middle East