Claudio Vercelli
Israele. Storia dello Stato
Giuntina

Israele è un paese che suscita passioni e identificazione ma del quale sono poco conosciuti la sua storia, gli eventi e i fatti che hanno portato alla nascita dello Stato degli ebrei nel corso di un secolo che ha visto mutare molti equilibri. L’autore, ricercatore di Storia contemporanea all’Istituto di Studi storici Salvemini di Torino, indaga i fatti, i personaggi e le storie che hanno generato lo Stato d’Israele, fino ad arrivare ai giorni nostri. Da Herzl ai leader di oggi, il libro di Vercelli è un’indagine accurata su quel che è stato, una riflessione su quel che è, oltre che un’ipotesi su ciò che potrà essere.

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.

Robert Wistrich
A Lethal Obsession
Random House

In this major work of historical synthesis, the author, Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,  offers abundant evidence that genocidal anti-Semitism, and apologetics and indifference about is not only a matter of the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust: it remains a key element of contemporary affairs. Lethal Obsession presents a profound interpretation of anti-Semitism both before and after 1945. Wistrich - who writes with the interpretive grasp of a historian of the first rank as well as with the passion and urgency that is so essential in the face of the genocidal threats made against Israel and the Jews in recent year - offers remarkable details of the persistence and permutation of this hallucinatory set of ideas within Europe as well as in the Middle East, North Africa and Iran.