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    SUGGESTED READING MATERIAL

     


     

    Frequently Sar-El volunteers ask the staff if they have any books to recommend on Israeli history, history of the Jewish people, the Middle East, or the Israeli army. Below is a list of several books that may be of interest to Sar-El participants.

      

     Sar-El participant writes to author Zipporah Porath,

    Dear Zippy:

    Recently I served as a volunteer for Sar-El and was privileged to hear you speak.  I purchased your book (Letters from Jerusalem) and have just finished reading it. What a marvelous account of the birth of Israel.  I enjoyed every one of your letters.  You are an inspiration and I wish all young people, including those in Israel, could read your book. 

    I had an opportunity to chat with some of the young people in the army and they should be encouraged to read the book...and not be complacent about Israel's future. Thank you so much for your efforts in helping to make a Jewish State possible. 

    Fondly,

    Cissy Rosen

     

     

     

    *If you have any recommendations for our reading list, please e-mail them to pamela@sar-el.org 

    Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle -   Dan Senor & Saul Singer   

    People of the Book -  Geraldine Brooks

    Rosa's Child - Jeremy Josephs (Sar-El Volunteer)

    Our Holocaust- Amir Gutfreund

    The Lives of Rachel - Joel Gross

    The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon - Richard Zimler

    The Club - The Jews of Modern Britain - Stephen Brook

    On Being Jewish - Julia Neuberger

    The Pity of It All - Amos Elon

    Book of Abraham - Marek Halter      

    The Israelis - Donna Rosenthal             

    Raid on the Sun - Roger W. Claire 

    Psalm in Jenin - Brett Goldberg                  

    Fighting Back - Harold Werner

    Aliya - Liel Leibovitz

    Letters from Jerusalem - Zipporah Porath (Sar-El Lecturer)

    A War or Not a War - Stuart Palmer (Sar-El lecturer)

    Oh, Jerusalem - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre 

    Dearest Auntie Fori -  Martin Gilbert

    And Rachel was his Wife - Anonymous; edited by Marsi Tabak

    When I lived in Modern Times - by Linda Grant

    The Case for Israel - by Alan Dershowitz

    Operation Moses - by Tudor Parfitt

    The Fight for Jerusalem - by Dore Gold

    The Jewish State - by Theodore Herzl

    Old New Land - by Theodore Herzl

    The Sword and the Olive - Martin Van Crevald

    A Biography of Moshe Dayan - Martin Van Crevald

    Spilled Milk - Holly Goldstein (Sar-El Volunteer)

    Boats of Cherbourg - Abraham Rabinovich

    Beaufort -   Ron Leshem

    Army Fatigues - Mark Werner (Sar-El Volunteer)

     I am my Bother's Keeper -  Jeffrey Weiss and Craig Weiss  

    A War or Not a War? Stuart Palmer (Sar-El Lecturer)

    Company C: An American's Life as a Citizen-Soldier in Israel - Haim Watzman

    From Paradise to Perdition, a Very Short Path - Donald Lachman

    A Glimpse of Israel - Glauco Romeo (Sar-El Volunteer)

     Day After Night - Anita Diamant

      Lone Soldiers - Herb Keinon