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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.

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

    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

    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

    Boats of Cherbourg - Abraham Rabinovich