Recommended Books
GENERAL BACKGROUND
Benvenisiti, Meron.
Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land
University of California Press, 1995.
Friedman, Thomas L.
From Beirut to Jerusalem, Anchor Doubelday, 1990.
Gilbert, Martin.
Israel: A History, William Morrow & Company, 1998.
Grossman, David.
The Yellow Wind, Noonday Press, 1998.
Halevi, Yossi Klein.
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land, William Morrow & Co, 2001.
Hazony, Yoram.
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul, Basic Books, 2000.
Lacquer, Walter.
An Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict,
Penguin USA, 2001.
Morris, Benny.
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999,
Knopf, 2001.
Oz, Amos.
Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays, Harvest Books, 1995.
Rabinovich, Itamar.
Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century,
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999.
Rubinstein, Amnon.
From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Vision of Zionism,
Holmes & Meier, 2000.
Savir, Uri.
The Process: 1,100 days that changed the Middle East,
Vintage Books, 1998.
Segev, Tom.
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate,
Metropolitan Books, 2000.
1949: The First Israelis, Henry Holt, 1998.
Tessler, Mark A.
A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Indiana University Press, 1994.
JERUSALEM
Armstrong, Karen.
One City: Three Faiths, Ballantine Books, 1997.
Benvenisti, Meron.
City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem,
University of California Press, 1996.
Gilbert, Martin.
Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century,John Wily & Sons, 1998.
Gorenberg, Gershon.
The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount,
Free Press, 2000.
PALESTINIANS
Grossman, David.
Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel,
Noonday Press, 1994.
Hass, Amira.
Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege,
Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Khalidi, Rashid.
Palestinian Identity, Columbia University Press, 1998.
PERSONAL STORIES
Horovitz, David.
A Little Too Close to God: The Thrills and Panic of a Life in Israel,
Knopf, 2000.
Orange, Wendy.
Coming Home to Jerusalem: A Personal Journey, Touchstone Books, 2001.
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST
Friedman, Robert I.
Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel’s West Bank Settlement Movement,
Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Kurzman, Dan.
Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin: 1922-1995, HarperCollins, 1998.
Sprinzak, Ehud.
Brother Against Brother: Violence and Extremism in Israeli Politics from Altalena to the Rabin Association, Free Press, 1999.
