Books
of Interest
THE
JEWISH STATE
The Struggle for Israel’s Soul
by Yoram Hasony
433pp Basic Books, 12 Hid’s Copse Road
Cummar Hill, Oxford, OX2 9JJ £19.50
FROM
HERZL TO RABIN
The Changing Image of Zionism
by Amnon Rubinstein
285pp New York; Holmes and Meier;
Distributed in the UK by Book representation and distribution
£25
A
BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE
Dispatches from the Middle East
384 pp Allen Lane, The Penguin Press £20
THE
STORY OF THE EXILE
A short history of the Jews of Iraq
by Nir Shohet
Translated
and edited by Professor Abraham Zilkha
Published by the Association for the Promotion of Research,
Literature
and Art – founded in Israel by Jews from Iraq - 141pp
NEW
SHANGHAI
The Rocky Rebirth of China’s Legendary City
by Pamela Yatsko
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - 298 pp
A
PEACE TO END ALL PEACE
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern
Middle-East
by David Fromkin
Avon Books – New York
567 pp
ONE
DAY IN SEPTEMBER
by Simon Reeve
The Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics
Massacre, a government cover-up and a covert revenge mission
Faber and Faber - 244 pp
THE
IRON WALL
Israel and the Arab World
by Avi Shlaim
Penguin Books - 642pp
EUROPEAN
AND ISLAMIC TRADE IN THE EARLY OTTOMAN STATE
The Merchants of Genoa and Turkey
by Kate Fleet
Cambridge University Press - 197 pp
THE
SILENCE OF HEAVEN
by Amoz Oz
Agnon’s Fear of God
Translated by Barbara Harshaw
Princeton University Press - 197 pp
THE
SEPHARDIM
Their Glorious Tradition from the Babylonian Exile to the
Present Day
by Lucien Gubbay and Abraham Levy
Carnell Limited – London - 220 pp
TO
BAGHDAD AND BACK
The Miraculous 2,000 Year Homecoming of the Iraqi Jews
by Mordechai Ben-Porat
Gefen publishing house, Jerusalem - 361 pp
SAINT
SAUL
A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
by Donald Harman Apenson
Oxford University Press 2000 - 346 pp £20.00
SIEGFRIED
SASSOON
The Making of a War Poet
A Biography 1886-1918
by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Duckworth in UK only - 585 pp £25.00
SIEGFREED
SASSOON 1886 – 1967
by John Stuart Roberts
Richard Cohen Books – London 344 pp £20.00
THE
SEPHARDIC STORY
A Celebration of Jewish History
by Chaim Raphael
with a Preface by Professor Moshe Mani
Vallentine Mitchell – London - 284 pp
OPERATION
BABYLON
Jewish Clandestine Activity in the Middle East 1946-51
by Shlomo Hillel
William Collins Sons & Co Ltd - 299 pp $15.00
WHO
OWNS LONDON?
A revealing in-depth investigation
by Shirley Coreen
Weidenfeld and Nicholson – London 216 pp
REINVENTING
PAUL
by John G Gager
Oxford University Press - 187 pp US$25.00
THE
ROAD FROM BABYLON
The Story of Sephardi and Oriental Jews
by Chaim Raphael
Weidenfeld and Nicolson-London 284 pp £16.95
THE
TERRIBLE SECRET
The First, Disturbing Account Of How The News Of Hitler’s
"Final Solution"
Was Suppressed And How It Was Eventually Revealed
by Walter Laqueur
Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London - 252 pp £8.95
HOURGLASS
by Shlomo Habusha
Translated by Riva Rubin
The Oxfordian Institute – Oxford - 270 pp
FOLEY
THE SPY WHO SAVED 4,000 JEWS
The Book that uncovered Britain’s Schindler
by Michael Smith
Coronet Books - 348 pp
GOLDEN
APPLES – ARTSCROLL SERIES
Parables of the Ben Ish Chai
by Yaakov Kahn
Translated by Shaindel Weinbach
Mesorah Publications Ltd - 192 pp
DENYING
HISTORY
Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened And Why Do They Say
It?
by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman
University of California Press - 304 pp
ROAD
TO RICHES
OR THE WEALTH OF MAN
by Peter Jay
Weidenfeld & Nicolson – London - 371 pp £20.00
ONLY
YESTERDAY
A Novel by S Y Agnon
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Princeton University Press - 642 pp
WARTIME
LIES
by Louis Begley
winner of the Irish Times/AER Lingus
International Fiction Prize
Pan Books Limited 198 pp
Picador UK £5.99
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