Search Results - War*

Peace first a new model to end war / by Savir, Uri

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The Nixon Administration and the Middle East peace process, 1969-1973 from the Rogers Plan to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War / by Vanetik, Boaz

Table of Contents: “…The run up to the Yom Kippur War: Autumn 1972-October 1973 -- Reinforcing the status quo in the region -- Complacency in the shadow of continued diplomatic stalemate -- Summary and conclusions.…”
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The city besieged siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / by Ephʻal, Israel

Table of Contents: “…Ch 1 Introduction -- What is siege warfare -- Purpose of the book and method of discussion -- Ch 2 Sources -- Literary sources -- Non-literary documents -- Artistic representations of siege warfare -- Archaeological evidence -- Ch 3 Military aspects -- Blockade -- Breakthrough -- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects -- Introduction -- Babylonian siege documents -- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar -- Legal significance of the hardship formulae -- "Charitable deeds" -- Ch 5 Social aspects -- Between man and God -- Public life.…”
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My four years in Soviet Russia by Erlichson, Yitzkhak

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Escaping the Holocaust illegal immigration to the land of Israel, 1939-1944 / by Ofer, Dalia

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Arrows in the dark David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv leadership, and rescue attempts during the Holocaust / by Friling, Tuvia

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The Hebrew Bible reborn from Holy Scripture to the Book of Books : a history of biblical culture and the battles over the Bible in modern Judaism / by Shavit, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…"Back to the Bible" : the biblical revolution in the nineteenth century -- Wellhausen and his school : the Jewish response to higher criticism -- "Truth shall spring out of the earth : the initial Jewish reaction to the archaeology of the ancient Near East -- The Babel-Bibel controversy as a typological event -- Friedrich Delitzsch and a second "Tower of Babel" -- Delitzsch's three lectures on Babel and Bibel -- The controversy in the German arena : theology vs. science -- At war : within and without -- Contra Delitzsch : revelation, originality and ethics -- From Noah to the Sabbath -- After Delitzsch : the Bible and Jewish Bible study in Germany between the two world wars -- Bible criticism arrives in Eretz Israel : struggle and reception -- "Extra-academic" Bible study and Bible criticism -- Orthodox Bible criticism in Eretz Israel -- The Bible as history and biblical archaeology: "can two walk together? …”
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Moses Mendelssohn sage of modernity / by Feiner, Shmuel

Table of Contents: “…A stroll down Unter den Linden -- From Dessau to Berlin: an unpredicted career -- Cultural conversion: the three formative years -- War and peace, love and family, fame and frustration -- Affront and sickness: the Lavater Affair -- Dreams, nightmares, and struggles for religious tolerance -- Jerusalem: the road to civic happiness -- Specters: the last two years.…”
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The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941 by Shoḥeṭ, ʻAzriʼel

Table of Contents: “…Pinsk : 1881-1914 -- Political trends up to 1906 -- The Hebrew language movement in Pinsk -- Schooling, education, and culture : 1881-1914 -- Changes in lifestyle and culture : 1881-1914 -- Institutions, societies and associations for social welfare : 1881-1914 -- Suppression and reaction : 1906-1914 -- In the period of the First World War -- Interregnum (1918-1920) -- Between two wars -- The Second World War up to the Nazi occupation (September 16, 1939-July 4, 1941).…”
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Israel a history / by Shapira, Anita

Table of Contents: “…IV. 1967-1977 : a decade of war -- pt. V. 1977-2000 : peace, war, and indecision.…”
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Menachem Begin a life / by Shilon, Avi

Table of Contents: “…Political talent -- A commander's getaway -- Going underground -- Declaration of rebellion -- A bomb in the heart of the empire -- Jubilation and disappointment -- Rejected and outcast -- Be killed but do not transgress -- Buds of legitimacy -- The breakthrough -- Once more a rebel -- Against expectations -- God, you have chosen us to rule -- No more war -- Deterioration -- The Begin doctrine -- King of israel --There will be not a single katyusha -- The downfall -- Self-flagellation -- Sharon was afraid of me -- Epilogue.…”
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Medieval Italy texts in translation /

Table of Contents: “…Lordships and city-state rivalry in Lombardy and the Veneto (1390-1405) -- 43. Maritime warfare and piracy : three texts on Genoa and Venice (1380-1403) -- [Pt.] 5. …”
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A Jewish life on three continents the memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden / by Frieden, Menachem Mendel, 1878-1963

Table of Contents: “…Menachem Mendel Frieden's apologia -- My father's family -- My mother's family -- My father's house -- Me and my youth -- My entry into heder -- On my way through yeshivot -- Passover and the holiday cycle -- More yeshiva studies -- I study with rabbis -- Matchmakers and marriage -- America -- I found the best woman -- My journey to the land of Israel and my early activities there -- The work of Americans in the land of Israel and my role in it -- More on life in the land of Israel -- Travels, the era of World War II, and illness -- A second trip to the United States -- Afterword : Menachem Mendel Frieden's journal and his life after 1947.…”
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Yosef Haim Brenner : a life / by Shapira, Anita

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of a writer, 1881-1901 -- In the Imperial Russian Army, 1901-1904 -- London, 1904-1906 -- London, 1906-1908 -- Lvov, 1908-1909 -- In Palestine, 1909-1911 -- The Jerusalem years, 1911-1914 -- Wartime, 1914-1918 -- Under British rule, 1918-1921 -- Days in May, 1921 -- De mortuis.…”
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Army of shadows Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948 / by Cohen, Hillel

Table of Contents: “…-- We, the collaborators -- Old collaborators, new traitors -- Unity ends -- The "traitors" counterattack -- World war, local calm -- Prelude to war -- Treason and defeat: the 1948 War.…”
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