Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Middle East - Israel

""Interesting conversation is Israel's most ingratiating commodity, and this is an especially interesting one. To read Coming Together, Coming Apart is to be engaged in an ongoing dialogue with one of Israel's most thoughtful observers--an American who made Israel his home, despite its imperfections and dangers. Gordis's conversational narrative is irresistible.""
--Alan dershowitz, author of The Case for Israel
""Whether describing a walk through Jerusalem in snow, a hike in the desert, or a farewell family drive to the Gaza settlements,...

"Profound, demanding, but lucid and well organized, Diamond's book is a class act " --Choice

..". sensitive, magisterial study... " --Macleans

..". a great interest to serious readers." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

..". a superb piece of research, empathetic yet clear-headed evaluation. But there is also wit, elegance and personal passion on these scholarly pages." --The Jewish Spectator

Homeland or Holy Land? is the study of a man and a movement--the man is Yonatan Ratosh, Hebrew poet and thinker, and the movement is Zionism, the ideological foundation of the Jewish...

Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. Since the nineteenth century, the city has been a premier tourist destination, not least because of the countless religious pilgrims from the three Abrahamic faiths.

But Jerusalem is more than a tourist site--it is a city where every square mile is layered with historical significance, religious intensity, and extraordinary stories. It is a city rebuilt by each ruling Empire in its own way: the Jews, the...

National Geographic's Israel Adventure Map is the perfect travel companion for Holy Land adventure travelers. This expertly researched map details the country with unparalleled information not found in traditional road maps. Hundreds of diverse and unique recreational, ecological, cultural, and historic destinations are pinpointed, including many hidden gems, such as Islamic and Jewish sacred sites, churches, mosques, archeological site, beaches, hotels, hostels, airports and harbors. A clearly marked network of both primary and...

What will I learn?
Basic Modern Hebrew is slowly and...

" "Jerusalem"] is a small miracle: concise, even-handed, highly particular." "The Guardian"
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"Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City" is the acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle's strongest work yet, a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in contemporary Jerusalem. Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of the Holy City, utilizing the classic "stranger in a strange land" point of view that made his other books required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. "Jerusalem" explores the complexities of a...