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History
Contemporary Life
Culture
Land of Israel in Jewish Thought
History
A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Ian Bickerton and Carla Klausner (University of Missouri, 2002).
Zionism: The Sequel, by Carol Diament (Hadassah, 1998).
The Jewish State: A Century Later, by Alan Dowty (University of California Press, 1998).
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, by Howard Sachar (Knopf, 1996).
Contemporary Life
Israel: A Spiritual Travel Guide: A Companion for the Modern Jewish Pilgrim, by Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman (Jewish Lights, 1998)
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle East Response, by Bernard Lewis (Oxford, 2002).
Coffins on our Shoulders: the Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel, by Dan Rabinowitz and Khawla Abu-Baker (University of California Press, 2005).
Arab Politics in Israel at the Crossroads, edited by Elie Rekhess, and T. Yegnes (Tel Aviv University Press, 1996).
The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land, by Donna Rosenthal (Free Press, 2005)
Culture
The Foods of Israel Today, by Joan Nathan (Knopf, 2001).
Modern Hebrew Literature, edited by Robert Alter (Behrman House, 1975).
A History of the Hebrew Language, by Angel Saenz-Badillos (Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Ha-Rikud: The Jewish Dance, by Fred Berk (American Zionist Youth Federation, 1972).
Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel, by Glenda Abramson (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Land of Israel in Jewish Thought
The History of Zionism, by Walter Laquer (Schocken, 2003).
The Land of Israel: Jewish Perspectives, edited by Lawrence A. Hoffman (The University of Notre Dame Press, 1986).
Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future, by David Hartman (Yale, 2000).
