The Collection: A Catalog In Development

Judaism and Jewish Culture and Life

Anti-Semitism

Laqueur, Walter.  The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism.  Oxford University Press, 2006.

Community, Culture, and Life

De Waal, Edmund.  The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

London, Charles.  Far From Zion: In Search of a Global Jewish Community.  New York: William Morrow, 2009.

Sears, David.  Compassion for Humanity in the Jewish Tradition.  Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1998.

Holocaust Literature (Nonfiction)

Wiesel, Elie.  Night.  Marion Wiesel, Translator.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1972; translation, 2006.

Language

Everett, Daniel L.  Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes.  New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.

Everett, Daniel L.  Language: The Cultural Tool.  New York: Pantheon Books, 2012.

Political Psychology

Fromm, Erich.  The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1973.

Post, Jerrold M.  Leaders and Their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of Political Behavior.  Forward by Alexander L. George.  Ithica: Cornell Universty Press, 2004.

Press, Eyal.  Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times.  New York: Picador, 2013.

Politics

Phillips, Melanie.  Londonistan.  New York: Encounter Books, 2006.

Phillips, Melanie.  The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power.  New York: Encounter Books, 2010.

Regions and States

CENTRAL ASIA

Cohen, Stephen Philip.  The Idea of Pakistan.  Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Rashid, Ahmed.  Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.  New York: Viking, 2008.

Eurasia

Russia

Soldatov, Andrei and Irina Borogan. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB.  New York: Public Affairs Books, 2010.

MIDDLE EAST

Israel

Bar-Zohar, Michael.  Ben-Gurion.  The New Millennium Edition.  Peretz Kidron, Translator.  Tel Aviv: Magal Books, 1077, 2003; translation, 1978.

Eisen, Robert.  The Peace and Violence of Judaism: From the Bible to Modern Zionism.  Oxford University Press, 2011.

Karsh, Efraim.  Palestine Betrayed.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Klein, Aaron.  Schmoozing With Terrorists: From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal Their Global Plans–To A Jew!  Los Angeles: WND Books, 2007.

Laqueur, Walter.  Dying for Jerusalem: The Past, Present and Future of the Holiest City.  Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2006.

Meir-Levi, David.  History Upside-Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression.  New York: Encounter Books, 2007.

Morris, Benny.  1948: The First Arab-Israeli War.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Shepherd, Robin.  A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem With Israel.  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009.