6 must-read israel books like Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius

Cover of Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius

Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

By: Lyn Julius

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave c…

If you liked the israel plot in Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill

1. The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

By: Thomas Cahill

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An enchanting journey into history, recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • judaism
  • history
  • jewish
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2. In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

By: Martin Gilbert

4.15

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestseller… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.22

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Your relationship to mortality is your own."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."

-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

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4. Islamophilia

By: Douglas Murray

4.12

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Columnist and broadcaster Douglas Murray, with trademark wit, delivers an alarming analysis behind … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Truman

By: David McCullough

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more

Similar categories in David McCullough's Truman book and Lyn Julius's Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

  • nonfiction
  • history

6. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By: James McBride

3.69

Format: 176 pages,

Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and … read more

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7. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By: Eric Hoffer

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more

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8. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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9. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • judaism
  • history
  • jewish
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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10. Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

By: Noa Tishby

4.34

Format: None pages, Audiobook

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM!A “fascinating and very m… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • nonfiction
"The truth is, there is absolutely nothing that can be said of Israel, that cannot be said of Pakistan."

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Instead of helping people move forward UNRWA keeps the Palestinian people in an eternal loop of displacement. Instead of solving the problem in any meaningful way, they have overseen the problem's ex…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"Here's the nugget: settling the refugee problem would mean ending the war against Israel. And as of now, the Palestinians and many of the Arab world have been refusing to do so. The best way to keep …"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

"There is almost no difference between the establishment of Israel and Pakistan. They were both created as a safe haven for persecuted groups: Jews and Muslims. They are both engaged in land disputes.…"

-Noa Tishby, Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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11. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

Cover of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington

12. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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13. The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more

Similar categories in Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus book and Lyn Julius's Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

  • israel
  • jewish
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14. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

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  • judaism
  • jewish
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

Cover of The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace by Adi Schwartz

15. The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace

By: Adi Schwartz

4.41

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to e… read more

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  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

16. Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy

By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family … read more

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  • judaism
  • nonfiction
  • jewish
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17. The Prison Minyan

By: Jonathan Stone

4.31

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Otisville, America's only Jewish prison...where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatt… read more

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  • judaism
  • jewish
Cover of Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius

18. Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

By: Lyn Julius

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Who are the Jews from Arab countries? What were relations with Muslims like? What made Jews leave c… read more

Similar categories in Lyn Julius's Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight book and Lyn Julius's Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

  • history
  • israel
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • nonfiction
  • antisemitism
Cover of A Letter For The Ages by Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer

19. A Letter For The Ages

By: Rabbi Avrohom Chaim Feuer

4.65

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

According to tradition, after his exile from Spain for his defense of Judaism, the great Ramban (Na… read more

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  • jewish
Cover of Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation by Ruth R. Wisse

20. Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation

By: Ruth R. Wisse

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Ruth Wisse’s intellectual autobiography is a lasting work of profound moral force and scathing pol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • jewish
Cover of Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated by Daniel Pipes

21. Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated

By: Daniel Pipes

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict will come to an acceptable conclusion only with a Palestinian sens… read more

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  • israel

9 Best history books like Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight by Lyn Julius

Transform Your Habits

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

Thomas Cahill

3.86

Transform Your Habits

In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

Martin Gilbert

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Islamophilia

Douglas Murray

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Truman

David McCullough

3.31

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10 Top israel books like Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated by Daniel Pipes

Transform Your Habits

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Noa Tishby

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Bibi: My Story

Benjamin Netanyahu

4.48

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How to Fight Anti-Semitism

Bari Weiss

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

Dan Senor

4.38

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