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Nonfiction Entebbe Declassified: The Untold First-Hand Stories of the Legendary Rescue Operation Sayeret Matkal Operators, Mitch Ginsburg (Translator)
Nonfiction Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire Raphael D. Marcus
Nonfiction Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
Nonfiction I Am Not a Spy: An American Jew Goes Deep in the Arab World & Israeli Army Michael Bassin
Nonfiction Disarmed: Unconventional Lessons from the World’s Only One-Armed Special Forces Sharpshooter Izzy Ezagui
Nonfiction Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps, April 1945 John C. McManus
Nonfiction No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal; Michael Bar-Zohar, Michael and Nathan Burstein, trans.
Nonfiction Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal
Nonfiction Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation Yossi Klein Halevi
Essay Maintaining Jewish Roots in the Military by Elise CooperAlthough there are many themes to Alison Buckholtz’s book, Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War, one that… Elise Cooper May 1, 2013
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist…Shani Boianjiu Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterOver the next several weeks, we’ll be introducing you to the five fiction finalists for this year’s Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish… Naomi Firestone-Teeter March 18, 2013
Essay Wimps Earlier this week, Haim Watzman wrote about how to succeed in academia without doing any research and Super Tuesday. He has been blogging here all week for Jewish… Haim Watzman November 9, 2012
