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An Unlikely Family

Voices of Ethiopian and American Youth Who Are Turning Tragedy Into Hope

By: Ben Beisswenger,Christopher Beisswenger,Margaret Eldred,Zoe Dmitrovsky,Meron Foster,Carolynne Krusi

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An Unlikely Family

Voices of Ethiopian and American Youth Who Are Turning Tragedy Into Hope

By: Ben Beisswenger,Christopher Beisswenger,Margaret Eldred,Zoe Dmitrovsky,Meron Foster,Carolynne Krusi

Presents accounts of Ethiopian orphans and the American students they have bonded with through the Selamta Family Project in Addis Ababa, an orphanage designed to help young people who have lost their parents to AIDS.

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An Unlikely Family

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0975926411

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9780975926413

Golda Meir

A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

By: Meron Medzini

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Golda Meir

A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works

By: Meron Medzini

Golda Meir: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works covers all aspects of her life and work. Golda Meir held some of the most important positions her party and country could offer, she was a unique personality, an impressive leader, a highly complex individual.. Includes a detailed chronology of Golda’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes the major events, places, and people in Golda’s life. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning her life and work. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153812288X

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9781538122884

Son of the Cypresses

Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life

By: Meron Benvenisti

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Son of the Cypresses

Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life

By: Meron Benvenisti

Now that I am seventy years of age, it is my prerogative to offer a summing up," says Meron Benvenisti, internationally known author and columnist, Jerusalem native, and scion of Israel’s founders. Born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mother, Benvenisti has enjoyed an unusual vantage point from which to consider his homeland’s conflicts and controversies. Throughout his long and provocative career as a scholar, an elected official, and a respected journalist, he has remained intimately involved with Israel’s social and political development. Part memoir and part political polemic, Son of the Cypresses threads Benvenisti’s own story through the story of Israel. The result is a vivid, sharply drawn eyewitness account of pre-state Jerusalem and Israel’s early years. He memorably sets the scene by recalling his father’s emotional journey from Jewish Salonika in 1913 to Palestine, with all its attendant euphoria and frustration, and his father’s pioneer dedication to inculcating Israeli youth with a "native’s" attachment to the homeland. In describing the colorful and lively Jerusalem in which he grew up, Benvenisti recalls the many challenges faced by new Jewish immigrants, who found themselves not only in conflict with the Arab population but also with each other as Sephardim and Ashkenazim. He revisits his own public disagreements with both Zionists and Palestinians and shares indelible memories such as his boyhood experiences of the 1948 War. In remembering his life as an Israeli sabra, Benvenisti offers a vivid record of the historical roots of the conflict that persists today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520930010

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9780520930018

Golda Meir

A Political Biography

By: Meron Medzini

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Golda Meir

A Political Biography

By: Meron Medzini

For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman, great leader, with a magnetic personality, a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity. She failed in the top job – that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins, her American roots, her immediate family, her failed marriage, her rise in the party, the trade union movement, her massive and enduring achievements as Secretary of Labor and Housing, her ten year stint as foreign minister and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. She was a very good tactician, far less a strategist. She was a major builder of modern Israel whose influence on that country, on Israel-American relations and on Jewish history was evident primarily from 1969 to 1974. The author who served as spokesman for Golda Meir in 1973-1974 weaves a gripping story of one of the builders and leaders of the State of Israel.

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689

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110489791

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9783110489798

Standing Up for Justice

The Challenges of Trying Atrocity Crimes

By: Theodor Meron

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Standing Up for Justice

The Challenges of Trying Atrocity Crimes

By: Theodor Meron

Judge Theodor Meron addresses the key questions facing the international criminal justice system, drawing on two decades of experience as an international judge and a distinguished academic career. He provides insights into judicial independence and the principle of fairness in trying cases before international criminal courts and tribunals.

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Oxford University Press

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0198863438

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9780198863434

Intimate Enemies

Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land

By: Meron Benvenisti

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Intimate Enemies

Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land

By: Meron Benvenisti

As Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace. The seven million people in the territory between Jordan and the Mediterranean are mutually dependent regarding employment, water, land use, ecology, transportation, and all other spheres of human activity. Each side, Benvenisti says, must accept the reality that two national entities are living within one geopolitical entity—their conflict is intercommunal and will not be resolved by population transfers or land partition. A geographer and historian by training, a man passionately rooted in his homeland, Benvenisti skillfully conveys the perspective of both Israeli and Palestinian communities. He recognizes the great political and ideological resistance to a confederation, but argues that there are Israeli Jews and Palestinians who can envision an undivided land, where attachment to a common homeland is stronger than militant tribalism and segregation in national ghettos. Acknowledging that equal coexistence between Israeli and Palestinian may yet be an impossible dream, he insists that such a dream deserves a place in the current negotiations. "Meron Benvenisti is the Middle East expert to whom Middle East experts go for advice . . . the most oft-quoted and oft-damned analyst in Israel."—from the Foreword by Thomas L. Friedman

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Univ of California Press

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052091483X

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9780520914834

City of Stone

The Hidden History of Jerusalem

By: Meron Benvenisti

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City of Stone

The Hidden History of Jerusalem

By: Meron Benvenisti

Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities presents a history of the city that does not fall prey to any one version of its past. Meron Benvenisti begins with a reflection on the 1996 celebration of Jerusalem's 3000-year anniversary as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. He then juxtaposes eras, dynasties, and rulers in ways that provide grand comparative insights. But unlike recent politically motivated histories written to justify the claims of Jews and Arabs now living in Jerusalem, Benvenisti has no such agenda. His history is a polyphonic story that lacks victors as well as vanquished. He describes the triumphs and defeats of all the city's residents, from those who walk its streets today to the meddlesome ghosts who linger in its shadows. Benvenisti focuses primarily on the twentieth century, but ancient hatreds are constantly discovered just below the surface. These hostilities have created intense social, cultural, and political interactions that Benvenisti weaves into a compelling human story. For him, any claim to the city means recognizing its historical diversity and multiple populations. A native son of Jerusalem, Benvenisti knows the city well, and his integrated history makes clear that all of Jerusalem's citizens have enriched the Holy City in the past. It is his belief that they can also do so in the future.

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Univ of California Press

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0520918681

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9780520918689

How To Live As A Christian

By: Meron Mehari

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How To Live As A Christian

By: Meron Mehari

You have a longing to get closer to God but you don't know where to start, you have so many questions without anyone close to you who can answer them, your friends don't believe in Jesus, but you want more in life, you want to be in his light. This book is a guide that will help you in your journey with God. Simpler but also deeper questions are answered in this book. How To Live As A Christian What must be done to be saved and how do you know if you are saved? What is the holy spirit and does everyone have the holy spirit in them? How do you build your faith and live in your salvation? Why should you pray and how do you pray? What is sin and how do you stop sinning? Are there demons and can you tell if someone is possessed? Are there fake Christian branches and how do you know which branch is fake? Are there bad congregations and how do you choose the correct congregation? This book contains answers to most topics concerning Christianity. Sin, demons, crime, sex, drugs & alcohol, friends, Jesus, good and bad churches, prayers, how to get closer to God, etc. Use this book as a guide so that you can learn and more easily move forward in your journey with God. Everything written in the book is backed up with biblical texts.

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BoD - Books on Demand

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9180803644

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9789180803649

Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940

An Ethnic Economy in Transition

By: Orly C Meron

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Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940

An Ethnic Economy in Transition

By: Orly C Meron

Provides a multidisciplinary exploration of Salonica's Jewish-owned economy between the years 1912-1940, a period prior to and during Greece's national consolidation. This book presents the results of the author's comparative and inter-ethnic study of Jewish entrepreneurial patterns for three distinct historical periods and two levels of analysis.

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Liverpool University Press

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1836241860

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9781836241867

Sacred Landscape

The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948

By: Meron Benvenisti

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Sacred Landscape

The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948

By: Meron Benvenisti

The resulting encounters between two peoples who claim the same land have raised great moral and political dilemmas, which Benvenisti presents with candor and impartiality."--BOOK JACKET.

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0520211545

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9780520211544

The Making of International Criminal Justice

A View from the Bench: Selected Speeches

By: Theodor Meron

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The Making of International Criminal Justice

A View from the Bench: Selected Speeches

By: Theodor Meron

There has been a quiet revolution over the course of the past quarter century in the prosecution of individuals for war crimes before international courts. Until recently, and with a few notable exceptions in the wake of World War II, violations of the laws of war and international humanitarian law were addressed primarily as claims between states. However, this approach has changed radically in just the last twenty years, as the international community has increasingly accepted the idea of individual criminal responsibility for violations of international humanitarian law. The International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have played a key role in this transformation and, as the trailblazers for a growing number of new international or hybrid criminal courts, in establishing the field of international criminal justice and encouraging the national prosecution of war crimes. Understanding the Tribunals' origins, their ground-breaking jurisprudence, and how they have addressed critical legal and practical challenges is essential to understanding both the revolution that has occurred over the past twenty years and how international criminal law will change and grow in the years ahead. As a leading scholar on humanitarian law, past President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and Appeals Judge for both the Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals, Theodor Meron has observed and influenced the development of international criminal law as it has evolved from a mostly academic exercise to a cornerstone of the new international legal order. In this collection of speeches delivered during his first decade on the bench, he offers an insightful overview of the foundations of international criminal law as well as a unique, insider's perspective on the challenges faced by international criminal tribunals, their creation of a corpus of substantive and procedural law regarding everything from sentencing and self-representation to the law of genocide and the protection of prisoners of war, the contributions of other international courts, and the responsibilities of international jurists. Judge Meron's personal reflections and unparalleled experience in international criminal justice make this volume as rewarding for experts as it is for the general public.

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OUP Oxford

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0191648663

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Book's by Meron Foster

An Unlikely Family

An Unlikely Family

Golda Meir

Golda Meir

Son of the Cypresses

Son of the Cypresses

Golda Meir

Golda Meir

Standing Up for Justice

Standing Up for Justice

Intimate Enemies

Intimate Enemies

City of Stone

City of Stone

How To Live As A Christian

How To Live As A Christian

Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940

Jewish Entrepreneurship in Salonica, 1912-1940

Sacred Landscape

Sacred Landscape

The Making of International Criminal Justice

The Making of International Criminal Justice

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