Israeli books

A patron came in today with hold requests for these books:

To the end of the land, David Grossman
The trials of Zion , Alan M. Dershowitz.
The rise of David Levinsky, Abraham Cahan
Bearing the body. Ehud Havazelet.
The Jewish Messiah. Arnon Grunberg.
Fire in the blood.  Irène Némirovsky.
A pigeon and a boy / Meir Shalev.
When the grey beetles took over Baghdad / Mona Yahia.

Oz to Kinneret

A new book, The Amos Oz Reader, was on the New Book truck, and I took a look.

Oz, A., Nitza, P., Lange, N., & Alter, R. (2009). The Amos Oz reader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.



The first story in the book is entitled The Kibbutz at the present time. Its from a book entitled Under this blazing light: essays, published in 1995. That set me to thinking back to the Kibbutz Kinneret, where I lived in 1963. There are Results 1 - 100 of about 39,700 for kibbutz kinneret. (0.60 seconds) according to Google. The 1st link is nonsense. The second is http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vie/Tiberias.html -- and interesting. The third link has an extension of .to -- which I finally found out belongs to Tonga. The website http://www.flevoland.to/ has a thumbnail map of Holland.

Tonga is located in the South Pacific. Yet the website is Dutch. The distance between Nukualofa, Tonga and New Zealand - Tokelau - Fakaofo is 850 miles, according to a website for calculating distances.

Kibbutz Kinneret. Looking at it on a map set me to thinking back to living there.

We Look Like the Enemy

We Look Like the Enemy : The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands

Saw this book on new-book truck this morning.