The Genizah

If You’re Reading These Words is a first-of-its-kind collection of forty-nine final letters from soldiers who fell in the war that broke out on October 7th, 2023. These letters contain dark humor and inside jokes, searing honesty and scorching love, fear of death and blinding courage. There is drama in them, and also escape from drama – spelling mistakes and pleas for forgiveness, expressions of gratitude and even concrete instructions for the day after.Most of these letters have never before been published. This literary documentary collection of last words is a piece of history being writtennow, in the words of young fighters who inscribed with their own bloodnew chapters in the story of Israel.

This is a story of fighting men, struggling in a great cause. The Jewish Legion was organized and fought in the First World War, their goal the securing of The Land of Israel as a Jewish National state. But his story can not be told without telling also of British imperial intrigue, of promises lightly given and lightly broken, of the injustice founded in opportunism and confirmed by decree. Founder and guiding spirit of the Jewish Legion and architect of the plan for a Jewish army was Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940). He has written his story simply and faithfully, giving praise to the men who

This book investigates and compares two contemporary Israeli peace movements through the angle of collective emotions, and specifically of hope Drawing on empirical qualitative research combining interviews with Jewish and Arab- Palestinian activists and ethnographic work, the work provides unique documentation of the birth and development of Standing Together (a mixed-gender peace movement) and Women Wage Peace (a women's peace movement). It explores the meaning of hope for Israeli peace activists, and shows the concrete efforts that both movements undertake to trigger hope, as part of an intersectional peace politics and of a non-partisan women's peace politics, respectively. The book also engages with the post-October 2023 developments in the Middle East, showing how both peace movements, now followed by others in the Israeli peace camp, continue to invest in their politics of hope amid devastation, fatigue and fear. Offering a gendered typology of hope-related emotion work useful beyond the cases at hand, the book proposes that collective hope-based action, combined with other emotions, might be powerful in all contexts of despair and protracted conflicts. This book will be of interest to students of peace and conflict studies, social and peace movements, gender studies, nonviolent resistance, international relations, and Israel- Palestine/Middle East