Kategoria BISAC: Travel >> Middle East - Israel

Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, 'Hotel Tiberias' is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian Hope follows the tumultuous story of his family's hotel in Palestine.

In 1900, Thomas Cook, who had been running tours of the Holy Land since the 1890s, financed the building of a hotel in Tiberias, the largest town on the Sea of Galilee, which had long been a stopover point for Christian pilgrims. The hotel, built, run and eventually owned by Richard Grossmann, was situated in the Sanjak of Acre, part of the Ottoman Empire, and after the First World War...

Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer that of his youth in a nation whose estate has been challenged by history. This gripping book chronicles that month-long journey.
Part memoir, part travelogue, it reveals the complexities of leaving behind such the past and coming to grips with its abandonment. With his sharp ear for dialogue and with a journalist s eye, Shihab records and considers, sometimes with fond humor, the...

"I tell tales that would never make it into coffee table books," KJ Hannah Greenberg declares in her latest book of essays, "My words are covered in forests that glow at night or seek paths among the guts of aliens' thinking machines." In forty-eight unapologetic and sometimes hilarious compositions incorporating Jerusalem cabbies, lizards, and communication theory, Greenberg configures and reconfigures the layers of her identity--successful professional writer, wife, mother, and American-born Orthodox Jew living in Israel--while providing surreally frank, sometimes painful insights into...

A Jewish woman's unconventional quest to find Jesus in modern Israel

With candor and an intimate knowledge of the Land and its people, Bobbie Ann Cole takes you on some intriguing time travel to Israel such as to the ceremonial slaughtering of Passover lambs in the nearby temple, as Jesus died on the cross.
Her moving and compellingly-written autobiography of making Aliyah to Israel with her husband, Butch effectively interweaves Israel's ancient and modern Christian history with biblical references. She reveals the challenges that have faced Jewish believers from...

Everything known from the Scriptures about the season Christians celebrate as Easter occurred within or near a single square mile in Israel. That square mile contains the city of Jerusalem. The book begins by pointing out the link between the first Passover, before the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt, and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ for the redemption of sin. Chapters two and three present selected events in the life and ministry of Jesus as he fulfilled God's plan and timeline during his journey toward the cross. Seven of the fourteen chapters in the book focus on the...

A true story of romance, secrets, and the forces of history, told through the letters exchanged by the parties.

Celia Antopolsky travels to British-controlled Palestine with her best friend, Lillian, in search of adventure and a view of the Holy Land. Great Britain has promised to preserve Palestine as a home for the Jewish people. But political and economic pressures threaten the Jewish dream.

When Lillian returns to her boyfriend in New York, Celia stays in Jerusalem, enjoying her active social life and her job working for a British engineer. A promising poet herself, Celia...