CANADIAN AMERICAN ACTIVE RETIREES IN ISRAEL

CAARI BOOK LIST

Over the past years we have had many requests regarding books and materials on Israel. CAARI participants want to learn about Israel’s history, current issues.  We have compiled the following list.  Your suggestions and recommendations are welcomed and we will continue to update this list.  Please share your favorite books with us.

“The Bible” – (Tanach) the Old and New Testament.  

The New International Version (NIV) is the most readable, but any translation will add a great deal to your CAARI experience.  We hold Bible study classes on the weekly portion during the CAARI program.  Our personal recommendation is three (3) book set “The Holy Scriptures” by Koren Publishers, Jerusalem, 2001.  This set is divided into three books, the Torah, Writings and Prophets with Hebrew opposite English for easy reference and translation.

Josephus, Wars Against the Jews.

Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews.

Herzl, Theodore, The Jewish State.  Vienna:1896.

Lewis, Bernard, From Babel to Dargomans. Interpreting the Middle East. London:Phoenix, 2005.

Lewis, Bernard, The Middle East:2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day. 

Lewis, Bernard, The Arabs in History

Collins, Larry and Dominique LaPierre, Oh Jerusalem. Israel: Grafton, 1982.

Laqueur, Walter. A History of Zionism. New York: Random House, Inc. 1972.

Sachar, Howard M, The Course of Modern Jewish History.

Sachar, Howard M, A History of Israel From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time. New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1998.

Sachar, Howard M, Diaspora: An Inquiry into the Contemporary Jewish World.

Sachar, Howard M, A History of the Jews in America. 

Finkelstein, Israel and Neil Silberman, The Bible Unearthed.

Finkelstein, Israel and Neil Silberman, David and Solomon.

Gruber, Rivka, Signal Fires of Lachish.

Begin, Menahem, The Revolt: The Story of Irgun. Tel Aviv: Hadar 1964.

Ben Gurion, David, Israel: Years of Challenge. New York, Holt 1963.

Kollek, Teddy and Moshe Perlman, Jerusalem Sacred City of Mankind: A History of Forty Centuries.  Jerusalem: Steimatzky, 1968.

Sadat, Anwar el, Revolt on the Nile. London: Wingate, 1957.

Sykes, Christopher, Crossroads to Israel.  New York: World 1965.

Meir, Golda, My Life. New York: GPPS 1975.

Kahalani, Avigdor, Heights of Courage (A Translation from the Hebrew Oz 77):  Jerusalem.

Weizmann, Chaim, Trial and Error. New York: 1949.

Bein, Alex, The Return to the Soil.  Jerusalem:1952.

Stein, Leonard, The Balfour Declaration.  London:1961

Arendt, Hannah, Eichman in Jerusalem – A Report on the Banality of Evil. USA:Viking Press, 1963

Elon, Amos, The Pity of it All – A Portrait of the German –Jewish Epock 1743-1933.  New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003.

Elon, Amos, Herzl: A Biography.

Oren, Michael B. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. New York:Oxford University Press, 2002

Friedman, Thomas L. The World is Flat. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

From Beirut to Jerusalem, 1989

The Lexus and  the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, 1999.

Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11^th,  2002.

Davidovich, Lucy, A Holocaust Reader.

Hilberg, Raul, The Destruction of the European Jews. Chicago:1961

The Theory and Practice of Hell.

Wiesel, Elie , The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.  Also by Elie Wiesel, A Beggar in Jerusalem, The Jews of Silence, One Generation After, The Town Beyond the Wall, Souls on Fire, Amimaamin.