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Free Download The Africana Bible: Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora, 2nd Edition
by Hugh R. Page, Valerie Bridgeman
English | 2024 | ISBN: 150648302X | 479 Pages | PDF | 10.2 MB

Free Download The Making of Israel’s Army by Yigal Allon
English | July 5, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D82D1FXN | 395 pages | PDF | 5.92 Mb
"Allon recounts the growth of the Israeli army from its inception in the 1880’s, when Jewish communities in Palestine formed their first small self-defence groups, through the Haganah’s clandestine period in the 1920’s and 30’s and the fighting after 1945 when army and state together achieved legality, to the Sinai Campaign of 1956 and the Six-Day War in June 1967 when the army reached maturity… His precise, economical narrative, interspersed with brief passages of analysis, is supplemented by extensive documentation, which is especially interesting in the way it traces the development of attitudes and doctrine in the Israeli forces. The work is a valuable contribution… It tells us a great deal about the organization, in its various stages, that fought the wars, and helps explain why these assumed the forms that they did, and why they succeeded… a study that is more than a history of a military organization." –Middle Eastern Studies

Free Download Jason A. Staples, "Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites"
English | ISBN: 1009376764 | 2024 | 350 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The gospel promoted by Paul has for many generations stirred passionate debate. That gospel proclaimed equal salvific access to Jews and gentiles alike. But on what basis? In making sense of such a remarkable step forward in religious history, Jason Staples reexamines texts that have proven thoroughly resistant to easy comprehension. He traces Paul’s inclusive theology to a hidden strand of thinking in the earlier story of Israel. Postexilic southern Judah, he argues, did not simply appropriate the identity of the fallen northern kingdom of Israel. Instead, Judah maintained a notion of ‘Israel’ as referring both to the north and the ongoing reality of a broad, pan-Israelite sensibility to which the descendants of both ancient kingdoms belonged. Paul’s concomitant belief was that northern Israel’s exile meant assimilation among the nations – effectively a people’s death – and that its restoration paradoxically required gentile inclusion to resurrect a greater ‘Israel’ from the dead.

Free Download Judy Jaffe-Schagen, "Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel "
English | ISBN: 1785331345 | 2016 | 233 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity. This meticulous, insightful book draws striking connections between both spheres, which play similar roles by housing objects and generating social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight representative Israeli communities―Chabad, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, Russian, Religious-Zionist, Christian Arab, and Muslim Arab―it gives a powerful account of museums’ role in state formation, proposing a new approach to collecting and categorizing particularly well-suited to societies in conflict.

Free Download Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil by Saul Friedländer
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1804296783 | 304 pages | PDF | 1.54 Mb
Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust

Free Download Greg Philo, "Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories"
English | 2006 | pages: 175 | ISBN: 0745325653 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Following on from their acclaimed book Bad News from Israel, Greg Philo and Mike Berry present a concise guide to the Israel-Palestine conflict. This uniquely accessible book will appeal to anyone looking for an approachable introduction. Uniquely, the authors show how there are many different, competing histories. They offer an overview of the wide range of contending viewpoints, and indicate those which are based on the most considered historical research.

Free Download Donna Robinson Divine, "Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0415495768 | EPUB | pages: 264 | 0.5 mb
Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world. Arising in academia and reshaping humanities and social sciences disciplines, postcolonial theory argues that our ideas about foreigners, ‘the other,’ particularly our negative ideas about them, are determined not by a true will to understand, but rather by our desire to conquer, dominate, and exploit them. According to postcolonial theory, the cause of poverty, tyranny, and misery in the world, and of failed societies around the world, is Euro-American imperialism and colonialism.

Free Download Israel Alone by Bernard-Henri Lévy
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D3QLZTNJ | 126 pages | EPUB | 2.53 Mb
Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone, and what’s at stake for Israel and the world.

Free Download Evelien Gans, "The Holocaust, Israel and ‘the Jew’: Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society "
English | ISBN: 9462986088 | 2017 | 598 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is the first comprehensive study of postwar antisemitism in the Netherlands. It focuses on the way stereotypes are passed on from one decade to the next, as reflected in public debates, the mass media, protests and commemorations, and everyday interactions. The Holocaust, Israel and ‘the Jew’ explores the ways in which old stories and phrases relating to ‘the stereotypical Jew’ are recycled and modified for new uses, linking the antisemitism of the early postwar years to its enduring manifestations in today’s world.

Free Download The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies: And How to Refute Them with Truth
by Alan Dershowitz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1510783547 | 80 Pages | True ePUB | 1.17 MB