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1) Exodus
Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
This #1 New York Times–bestselling saga traces Israel's earliest days and the people who fought to make it their home
The Exodus was just one ship among many that carried survivors of the Holocaust to Palestine to establish a new nation. But the path that Jewish immigrants took to enter British-controlled Palestine was a difficult one, fraught with danger and political intrigue. The boat was intercepted by British
2) Dawn
Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Deals with the conflicts and thoughts of a young Jewish concentration-camp veteran as he prepares to assassinate a British hostage in occupied Palestine.
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
xvii, 538 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed novel of the early years after the Resurrection, and the power of a Gospel, a Church, and a new World, is now available in a convenient ebook edition. Walter F. Murphy, author of the bestselling novel The Vicar of Christ, engages the epic grandeur of the Resurrection and the heroic struggle of Simon Peter to spread the good word that the kingdom of God is at hand. His journey is harrowing: he flees from Jerusalem to Galilee and, after...
Author
Series
Newbery Medal award volume 1962
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
9) The list
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Winner of a Jewish National Book Award for his previous book, Walking Israel, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher uses meticulous research and his own family's history in this stunning novel. Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, The List follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-Semitism sweeps across...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Four young women haunted by unspeakable memories and losses, afraid to begin to hope, find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience even as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves in a strange new country. Based on the extraordinary true story of the October 1945 rescue of more than two hundred Jewish prisoners from the Atlit internment camp outside Haifa.
11) Salt houses
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia's brother gets pulled into a politically militarized...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Years after photographer William Harrington participates in a 1920s project to redesign Jerusalem with British parks against a backdrop of growing nationalist unrest, his revelations about long-buried secrets transform the life of his former employer's daughter." --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.
15) Jerusalem vigil
Author
Series
Zion legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
322 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A bold, evocative new novel from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 and Betty Trask Award winner Isabella Hammad that follows actress Sonia as she returns to Palestine and takes a role in a West Bank production of Hamlet. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers...
Author
Series
Zion legacy volume 5
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
266 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Zion legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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