Jeffrey Weiss & Craig Weiss
I am my brother’s Keeper
American Volunteers in Israel’s war for Independence
Schiffer Military History

Based on recently declassified documents and more than two hundred interviews, “I am my brother’s keeper” tells the story of the more than one thousand Americans and Canadians, Jews and non-Jews, who fought in Israel’s War of Independence. Thirty-eight of the volunteers lost their lives in the struggle for a Jewish state. Others were wounded, and some ended up as prisoners of war of the Jordanian and Egyptian armies. This book captures the powerful story of those Jews and Christians who stood up to be counted at a critical time in Jewish history. Only three years after the Holocaust, these volunteers helped establish the State of Israel.

Ruth R. Wisse
Jews and Power
Nextbook Schocken

Taking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power and
demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets.
Jews and Power contains much information in few pages and offers a simple argument: Zionism is the solution to Jewish powerlessness; Israel is the guarantor of the Jews’ safety. Further, the Jewish nation’s resumption of sovereignty in 1948 created opportunities for the Jews to bring benefits to humanity as a whole.