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[edit] General Histories

  • Martin Gilbert, Israel: A History, (New York: Morrow, 1998).
  • Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972).
  • John Locke, [disc3/Locke on Land.pdf "Of Property,"] in Second Treatise of Government (Oxford: Blackwell, 1946).
  • Noah Lucas, The Modern History of Israel, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974).
  • Howard Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, 2d. ed., rev. and updated (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
  • Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis, (New York: Free Press, 1986).
  • Yaacov Shavit, The New Hebrew Nation: A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy, (Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass, 1987).


[edit] Documentary Source Readers

  • "Definitions of Nation, Nation-State and Nationalism"
  • Arthur Hertzberg, ed., The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997).
  • "Vladimir Jabotinsky, 1880-1940," in Arthur Hertzberg, ed., The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997).
  • Vladimir Jabotinsky, "The Iron Wall: We & the Arabs"
  • Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  • Nenad Miscevic, "Nationalism," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [electronic resource].
  • Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, 1948-Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984). (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997).


[edit] Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism

  • Aviezer Ravitzky, "'Forcing the End': Radical Anti-Zionism," in Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
  • Shalom Lappin, "Responses to the Anti-Israel Left and Arab Rejectionists: Israel and the New Anti-Semitism," Dissent Spring 2003.


[edit] Arabs in Israel and the Territories

  • Arab-Israeli Conflict (Powerpoint presentation)
  • "Arab Population in Israel," State of Israel, Prime Minister's Office
  • Early Zionist-Arab Encounters (Powerpoint presentation)
  • Yoav Gelber, Palestine, 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2001).
  • David Grossman, Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993).
  • Hamas Charter
  • Tony Judt, "Israel: The Alternative," New York Review of Books Vol. 50, No. 16 (October 23, 2003).
  • Efraim Karsh, "Were the Palestinians Expelled?" Commentary July-August 2000: 29-34.
  • Rashid Khalidi, "The Palestinians and 1948: The Underlying Causes of Failure," in Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  • Ariel E. Levite and Emily B. Landau, "Arab Perceptions of Israel's Nuclear Posture, 1960-1967," Israel Studies Vol. 1, No. 1 (1996).
  • Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
  • Benny Morris, "The Origins of the Palestinian Refugee Problem"
  • Benny Morris, "Details and Lies," The New Republic 31 October 2005.
  • Benny Morris, "A New Exodus for the Middle East?" The Guardian 3 October 2002.
  • Benny Morris, "Rashid Khalidi—Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (review)," Israel Studies Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1998).
  • Benny Morris, "Peace? No Chance," The Guardian 21 February 2002.
  • Benny Morris, "The Causes and Character of the Arab Exodus from Palestine," in Ilan Pappé, ed., The Israel/Palestine Question: Rewriting Histories (New York: Routledge, 1999).
  • Benjamin Neuberger "The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics, 1948-1992—From Marginality to Influence," Asian and African Studies Vol. 27, Nos. 1 and 2 (March/July 1993).
  • Theodor Or, A Year to the State Investigative Commission on the October 2000 Events, Renee Goldfischer-Hochman, ed. (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University/Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation, 2004).
  • Sarah Ozacky–Lazar, ed., Seven Roads: Theoretical Options for the Status of the Arabs in Israel, Research Abstract (Givat Haviva: Institute for Peace Research, 1999).
  • Sarah Ozacky–Lazar and As'ad Ghanem, eds., Between Two Octobers: The Palestinians in Israel, October 2000–October 2001 (Givat Haviva: Institute for Peace Research, 2001).
  • Ilan Pappé, The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 (New York: Tauris, 1992).
  • Ilan Pappé, ed., The Israel/Palestine Question (New York: Routledge, 1999).
  • Ilan Pappé, "An Uneasy Coexistence Arabs and Jews in the First Decade of Statehood," in Noah Lucas and S. Ilan Troen, eds., Israel: The First Decade of Independence (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
  • Shimon Peres, The New Middle East, with Ayre Naor (New York: Henry Holt, 1993).
  • Yochanan Peres, "Modernization and Nationalism in the Identity of the Israeli Arab" Middle East Journal Vol. 24, No. 4 (Autumn 1970).
  • Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  • Elie Rekhess, "The Arabs of Israel After Oslo: Localization of the National Struggle," Israel Studies Vol. 7, No. 3 (Fall 2002).
  • Elie Rekhess, "Initial Israeli Policy Guidelines towards the Arab Minority, 1948-1949," in Laurence J. Silberstein, ed., New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State (New York: New York University Press, 1991).
  • Nadim Rouhana and As'ad Ghanem, "The Democratization of a Traditional Minority in an Ethnic Democracy: The Palestinians in Israel," in Ilan Pappé, ed., The Israel/Palestine Question: Rewriting Histories (New York: Routledge, 1999).
  • Ahmad Sa'di, "Catastrophe, Memory, and Identity"
  • Emile Sahliyeh, In Search of Leadership: West Bank Politics since 1967 (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1988).
  • Edward Said, "Projecting Jerusalem"
  • Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
  • Zaki Shalom, "Ben-Gurion and Tewfik Toubi Finally Meet (October 28, 1966)"
  • Moshe Shemesh, "The IDF Raid on Samu': The Turning-Point In Jordan's Relations With Israel and the West Bank Palestinians"
  • Moshe Shemesh, "Did Shuqayri Call for 'Throwing the Jews into the Sea'?"
  • Avi Shlaim, Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988).
  • Sasson Somekh, "'Reconciling Two Great Loves': The First Jewish-Arab Literary Encounter in Israel"
  • Kenneth Stein, "One Hundred Years of Social Change: The Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem"
  • Shabtai Teveth, "Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War"
  • Amos Yovel, "Arabs and Palestinians in Israeli Textbooks in the School Year 1999-2000"


Also see [demo.htm Demography], [polcul.htm Political Culture], and [islam.htm Political Islam in Palestine]


[edit] Bedouin Society

[edit] Biographies

  • Michael Bar-Zohar, Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996).
  • Menachem Begin, The Revolt: Story of the Irgun (New York: Schuman, 1951).
  • David Ben-Gurion, Ben Gurion Looks Back in Talks with Moshe Pearlman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965).
  • David Ben-Gurion, Israel: A Personal History (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1971).
  • Moshe Dayan, Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life (New York: Morrow, 1976).
  • Abba Eban, Abba Eban: An Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1977).
  • Amos Elon, Herzl (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975).
  • Chaim Herzog, Living History: A Memoir (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996).
  • Pnina Lahav, Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
  • Golda Meir, "The Right to Exist," "We Are Alone," and "The Yom Kippur War," in My Life (New York: Putnam, 1975).
  • Shimon Peres, Battling for Peace: A Memoir (New York: Random House, 1995).
  • Yitzhak Rabin, The Rabin Memoirs (Boston: Little, Brown, 1979).
  • Jehuda Reinharz, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
  • Anita Shapira, Berl: The Biography of a Socialist Zionist, Berl Katznelson, 1887-1944 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
  • Gabriel Sheffer, Moshe Sharett: A Biography of a Political Moderate (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
  • Shabtai Teveth, Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground, 1886-1948 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987).
  • Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann (New York: Harper, 1949).


[edit] Christian Attitudes toward Israel


[edit] Claims to the Land through Sacred Texts, Culture, and Archaeology


[edit] Demography


Also see [arabs.htm Arabs in Israel and the Territories]


[edit] Economy

  • Yoram Bar-Gal, Sokhenet ta`amulah Erets Yisre'elit: ha-Keren ha-kayemet le-Yisra'el, 1924-1947, (Haifa: Universitat Hefah, 1999).
  • Haim Barkai, Growth Patterns of the Kibbutz Economy, (New York: North-Holland Pub. Co., 1977).
  • David Ben-Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel, (New York: Philosophical Library, 1954).
  • Alfred Bonne, The economic development of the Middle East: An Outline of Planned Reconstruction After the War, (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1945).
  • Nachum Gross, Laying the Foundations of Israel's Economic System, 1948-1951, (Jerusalem: Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, 1945).
  • David Horowitz and Rita Hinden, Economic Survey of Palestine, with special reference to the years 1936 and 1937, (Tel-Aviv: Economic Research Institute of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1938).
  • Baruch Kimmerling, Zionism and Economy, (Cambridge: Schenkman Pub. Co., 1983).
  • Jacob Metzer, The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
  • Robert R. Nathan, Oscar Gass and Daniel Creamer, Palestine: Problem and Promise, An Economic Study, (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1946).
  • S. Ilan Troen, "Calculating the 'Economic Absorptive Capacity' of Palestine: A Study of the Political Uses of Scientific Research," Contemporary Jewry 10.2: 19-38.


[edit] Education

  • Yoram Bar-Gal, Moledet ve-ge'ografyah be-me'ah shenot hinukh Tsiyoni (Tel Aviv: 'Am 'Oved, 1993).


Also see [polcul.htm Political Culture]


[edit] Foreign Relations


Also see [docsource.htm Documentary Source Readers], [polcul.htm Political Culture], and [sochist.htm Social History]


[edit] Gender Issues in Israeli Society

  • Deborah S. Bernstein, ed., Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).
  • Hanna Herzog, "Women's Politics in Israel"
  • Paula E. Hyman, "Seductive Secularization," in Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995).
  • Kalpana Misra and Melanie S. Rich, eds., Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 2003).
  • Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, eds., American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2005).
  • Susan Sered, "What Makes Women Sick? Maternity, Modernity, and Militarism in Israeli Society"
  • Gila Svirsky, "The Women's Peace Movement in Israel"


Also see [yishuv.htm The Yishuv]


[edit] Hebrew and Israeli Literature, Culture, and Literary Criticism

  • Robert Alter, ed., Modern Hebrew Literature (New York: Behrman House, 1975).
  • Stanley Burnshaw, ed., The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself, new and updated ed. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003).
  • David Grossman, "The Yellow Wind"
  • Oscar Handlin, "Generations," in The Uprooted (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951).
  • Benjamin Harshav, Language in Time of Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
  • Etgar Keret, "The Story About a Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God" and "Shoes," in The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and other stories (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2001).
  • Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography," in Deborah D. Moore and S. Ilan Troen, eds., Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 155-191.
  • Savyon Liebrecht, "Apples from the Desert," in Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories (New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1998).
  • Iris Milner, "A Testimony to 'The War After': Remembrance and its Discontent in Second Generation Literature," Israel Studies Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2003).
  • Alan Mintz, ed., The Boom in Contemporary Israeli Fiction (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 1997).
  • Alan Mintz, ed., Reading Hebrew Literature: Critical Discussions of Six Modern Texts (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 2003).**
  • Motti Neiger, "When Literature Meets the Press: Trends in the Literary Supplements of Daily Newspapers in Israel, From the 1950s to the 1990s," Hebrew Studies 45 (2004), 119-131.
  • Gershon Shaked, Modern Hebrew Fiction (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).
  • Sasson Somekh, "'Reconciling Two Great Loves': The First Jewish-Arab Literary Encounter in Israel"
  • Rachel Weissbrod, "Exodus as a Zionist Melodrama"


[edit] Historiography

  • Pinhas Ginossar and Avi Bareli, Tsiyonut: pulmus ben zemanenu: gishot mehkariyot ve-ide'ologiyot (Kiryat Sedeh-Boker: ha-Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon, 1996).
  • Yaacov Shavit, The New Hebrew Nation: A Study in Israeli Heresy and Fantasy, (Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass, 1987).


Also see [genhist.htm General Histories]


[edit] History of Zionism

  • Shlomo Avineri, The Making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (New York: Basic Books, 1981).
  • Arthur Balfour, "Balfour Declaration"
  • Selections from David Ben-Gurion's diaries, dates around Declaration of Independence
  • James A. Bill and Robert Springborg, "States Beliefs and Ideologies," in Politics in the Middle East, 5th. ed. (New York: Longman, 2000).
  • Erik Cohen, The City in the Zionist Ideology (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1970).
  • Alan Dowty, The Jewish State: A Century Later (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
  • Amos Elon, The Israelis: Founders and Sons (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
  • Toviyah Friling, Hets ba-arafel: David Ben-Guryon, hanhagat ha-Yishuv ve-nisyonot hatsalah ba-Sho'ah (Kiryat Sedeh-Boker: ha-Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon; Yerushalayim: ha-Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu 'a. sh. Avraham Harman, ha-Universitah ha-'Ivrit, 1998).
  • Pinhas Ginossar and Avi Bareli, Tsiyonut: pulmus ben zemanenu: gishot mehkariyot ve-ide'ologiyot (Kiryat Sedeh-Boker: ha-Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon, 1996).
  • Ben Halpern, The Idea of the Jewish State, 2d. ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969).
  • Ben Halpern and Jehuda Reinharz, Zionism and the Creation of a New Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
  • Yoram Hazony, The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israelís Soul, 1st ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
  • Arthur Hertzberg, ed.,"Vladimir Jabotinsky, 1880-1940," in The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997). [delete copy, jab testify]
  • E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, 2d. ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
  • Vladimir Jabotinsky, "The Iron Wall: We & the Arabs" [make pdf]
  • Yossi Katz, "The Demand for Full Sovereignty and Early Studies on the Issue of Forming a Jewish State," in Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era (Portland: Frank Cass, 1998).
  • Baruch Kimmerling, Zionism and Territory: The Socio-territorial Dimensions of Zionist Politics (Berkeley: University of California, 1983).
  • Israel Kolatt, Ide'ologyah u-metsi'ut bi-Tenu'at ha-'avodah be-'Eretz Yisra'el, 1905-1919 (Yerushalayim, 1964).
  • Walter Laqueur, A History of Zionism (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972).
  • Judah L. Magnes, Dissenter in Zion: from the Writings of Judah L. Magnes, Arthur A. Goren, ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).
  • George L. Mosse, "Can Nationalism Be Saved? About Zionism Rightful and Unjust Nationalism," The Weizman Lecture in the Humanities, Weizman Institute, Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1995.
  • David N. Myers, Re-inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  • The Palestine Mandate
  • Jehuda Reinharz, "The Transition from Yishuv to State: Social and Ideological Change," in Laurence J. Silberstein, ed., New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State (New York: New York University Press, 1991).
  • Anita Shapira, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948, trans. by William Templer (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
  • Moshe Shertok, "Ad Hoc Committee on Palestine"
  • Yaacov Shavit, Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948 (Totawa, N.J.: F. Cass, 1988).
  • Gideon Shimoni, The Zionist Ideology (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1995).
  • Michael Stanislawski, Zionism and the Fin de SiËcle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
  • Zeev Sternhell, The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State, trans. by David Maisel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
  • David Vital, The Origins of Zionism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).
  • Chaim Weizmann, "Zionism Needs a Living Context"


Also see [genhist.htm General Histories], [t-zion.htm Zionist Thought], and [c-zion.htm Zionism and its Critics]


[edit] The Holocaust and Israel

  • Yoar Artsieli, The Gavison-Medan Covenant: Main Points and Principles (Jerusalem: Israel Democratic Institute and Avi Chai Foundation, 2004).
  • "Report of the Kahan Commission on the Sabra and Shatila Massacres, February 7, 1983"
  • Tuvia Friling and S. Ilan Troen, "Proclaiming Independence: Five Days in May from Ben-Gurion's Diary"
  • Charles S. Liebman, "Religion and Democracy in Israel," in Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of Religion in Israel, Shlomo Deshen, Charles S. Liebman, and Moshe Skokeid, eds. (New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1995).
  • Moshe Lissak, "The Civilian Components of Israel's Security Doctrine: The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in the First Decade," in Israel: The First Decade of Independence, S. Ilan Troen and Noah Lucas, eds. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
  • Meir Litvak and Esther Webman, "Perceptions of the Holocaust in the Palestinian Public Discourse," Israel Studies 8.3 (2003), 123-140.
  • Benjamin Neuberger "The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics, 1948-1992—From Marginality to Influence," Asian and African Studies Vol. 27, Nos. 1 and 2 (March/July 1993).
  • Theodor Or, A Year to the State Investigative Commission on the October 2000 Events, Renee Goldfischer-Hochman, ed. (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University/Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation, 2004).
  • Sarah Ozacky–Lazar, ed., Seven Roads: Theoretical Options for the Status of the Arabs in Israel, Research Abstract (Givat Haviva: Institute for Peace Research, 1999).
  • Sarah Ozacky–Lazar and As'ad Ghanem, eds., Between Two Octobers: The Palestinians in Israel, October 2000–October 2001 (Givat Haviva: Institute for Peace Research, 2001).
  • Elyakim Rubinstein, "The Declaration of Independence as a Basic Document of the State of Israel," Israel Studies Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1998).
  • Nadim Rouhana and As'ad Ghanem, "The Democratization of a Traditional Minority in an Ethnic Democracy: The Palestinians in Israel," in Ilan Pappé, ed., The Israel/Palestine Question: Rewriting Histories (New York: Routledge, 1999).
  • Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993).
  • Sammy Smooha, "Ethnic Democracy: Israel as an Archetype"
  • Status quo agreements
  • Gila Svirsky, "The Women's Peace Movement in Israel"
  • S. Ilan Troen, "The Hebrew Translation of the Declaration of Independence"
  • Yfaat Weiss, "Central European Ethnonationalism and Zionist Binationalism"
  • Leon Wieseltier, "Israel, Palestine, and the Return of the Bi-National Fantasy: What is Not to be Done"
  • Hanna Yablonka, Survivors of the Holocaust: Israel After the War, trans. by Ora Cummings (New York: New York University Press, 1999).
  • Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein, "Israel and the Family of Nations"
  • Idith Zertal, From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).


[edit] Immigration

  • S.N. Eisenstadt, The Absorption of Immigrants: A Comparative Study Based Mainly on the Jewish Community in Palestine and the State of Israel (London: Routledge & Paul, 1954).
  • Eyal Kafkafi, "Segregation or Integration of the Israeli Arabs: Two Concepts in Mapai," International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 30, No. 3 (August 1998): 347-367.
  • Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, "Introduction: Israel as a Social Laboratory," in Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
  • Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, "Israel as a Multi-Cleavage Society," in Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
  • Emanuel Marx, The Social Context of Violent Behaviour: A Social Anthropological Study of an Israeli Immigrant Town (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1976).
  • Daliyah Ofer, Ben 'olim le-vatikim : Yisra'el ba-'aliyah ha-gedolah, 1948-1953, (Yerushalayim: Yad Yitshak Ben-Tsevi, 1996).
  • Moshe Shokeid, The Dual Heritage: Immigrants from the Atlas Mountains in an Israeli Village, augm. ed. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985).
  • S. Ilan Troen, "Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement"
  • Utopian Reforms
  • Alex Weingrod, Reluctant Pioneers: Village Development in Israel (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966).
  • Amos Yovel, "Arabs and Palestinians in Israeli Textbooks in the School Year 1999-2000"
  • Zvi Zameret, "The Melting Pot in Israel: The Commission of Inquiry Concerning Education in the Immigrant Camps in the Early Years of the State"


[edit] Israel as a Democratic Jewish State

  • Joseph E. David, ed., State of Israel: Between Judaism and Democracy, a compendium of interviews and articles (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2003).
  • Alan Dowty, The Jewish State: A Century Later (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
  • Arthur Hertzberg, The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel and Palestine (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003).
  • Israel 2020 Security
  • Israel's Declaration of Independence
  • Yossi Katz, "The Demand for Full Sovereignty and Early Studies on the Issue of Forming a Jewish State," in Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era (Portland: Frank Cass, 1998).
  • Herbert C. Kelman, "Some Determinants of the Oslo Breakthrough," International Negotiation Vol. 2, No. 2 (1997): 183-194.
  • Edud Luz, "'Jewish Ethics' as an Argument in the Public Debate Over the Israeli Reaction to Palestinian Terror," Israel Studies Vol. 7, No. 3 (Fall 2002).
  • Benjamin Netanyahu, A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World (New York: Bantam Books, 1993).
  • Barry Rubin, The Tragedy of the Middle East (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).


[edit] Israel as an "Overburdened Utopia"


[edit] Israel in the Context of the Middle East


[edit] Israel and World Jewry


Also see [foreign.htm Foreign Relations]


[edit] Jewish and Israeli Identity

  • Oz Almog, The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
  • Nachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
  • Boas Evron, Jewish state or Israeli nation? (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
  • Simon N. Herman, Israelis and Jews: The Continuity of an Identity, (New York: Random House, 1971).
  • Etgar Keret, "The Story About a Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God" and "Shoes," in The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God and other stories (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2001).
  • Charles S. Liebman, ed., Religious and Secular: Conflict and Accomodation Between Jews in Israel (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1990).
  • Charles S. Liebman, Pressure without Sanctions: The Influence of World Jewry on Israeli Policy
  • Charles S. Liebman and Steven M. Cohen, Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
  • Charles S. Liebman and Elihu Katz, eds., The Jewishness of Israelis: Responses to the Guttman Report, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997).
  • Meir Litvak and Esther Webman, "Perceptions of the Holocaust in Palestinian Public Discourse," Israel Studies Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2003).
  • Iris Milner, "A Testimony to 'The War After': Remembrance and its Discontent in Second Generation Literature," Israel Studies Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2003).
  • Arye Naor, "Lessons of the Holocaust Versus Territories For Peace, 1967-2001," Israel Studies Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 2003).
  • Simon Rawidowicz, State of Israel, Diaspora, and Jewish Continuity: Essays on the "Ever-Dying People" (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 1998).
  • Eliezer Schweid, "'Beyond' All That - Modernism, Zionism, Judaism," Israel Studies 1.1: 224-46.
  • Tom Segev, "The Seventh Million"
  • Zaki Shalom, "Document: David Ben-Gurion and Chancellor Adenauer at the Waldorf Astoria on 14 March 1960"
  • Roni Stauber, "Realpolitik and the Burden of the Past: Israeli Diplomacy and the Burden of the Past"
  • Yechiam Weitz, "The Holocaust on Trial: The Impact of the Kasztner and Eichmann Trials on Israeli Society"
  • Hanna Yablonka, "The Silent Partner: Holocaust Survivors in the IDF"
  • Hanna Yablonka, "The Commander of the 'Yizkor' Order: Herut, Holocaust, and Survivors"
  • Hanna Yablonka, "The Development of Holocaust Consciousness in Israel: The Nuremberg, Kapos, Kastner, and Eichmann Trials"
  • Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition, (New York: Random House, 1971).


Also see [sochist.htm Israeli Social History] and [t-zion.htm Zionist Thought]


[edit] Law and Jurisprudence

  • Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, "A Survey of Palestine" (Jerusalem: Government Printer, 1946).
  • Arthur Balfour, "Balfour Declaration"
  • Yossi Katz, "The Demand for Full Sovereignty and Early Studies on the Issue of Forming a Jewish State," in Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era (Portland: Frank Cass, 1998).
  • Mordechay Naor, ha'Haganah (Tel Aviv, 1985).
  • The Palestine Mandate
  • Moshe Shertok, "Ad Hoc Committee on Palestine"


[edit] Mandate Palestine

  • ESCO Foundation for Palestine, Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947).
  • Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, Origins of the Israeli Polity: Palestine Under the Mandate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).
  • Moshe Lissak, "Aliyah" [in Hebrew]
  • Jacob Metzer, The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
  • Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000).
  • Mandate Society and Politics (Powerpoint presentation)


Also see [yishuv.htm The Yishuv]


[edit] Middle East History

  • Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002).
  • Benny Morris, "A New Exodus for the Middle East?" The Guardian 3 October 2002.
  • Benny Morris, "Rashid Khalidi—Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (review)," Israel Studies Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 1998).
  • Benny Morris, "Peace? No Chance," The Guardian 21 February 2002.
  • Benny Morris, "The Causes and Character of the Arab Exodus from Palestine," in Ilan Pappé, ed., The Israel/Palestine Question: Rewriting Histories (New York: Routledge, 1999).
  • Terence Prittie, The Double Exodus: A Study of Arab and Jewish Refugees in the Middle East (London: Goodhart Press, 1974).
  • Elie Rekhess, "The Arabs of Israel After Oslo: Localization of the National Struggle," Israel Studies Vol. 7, No. 3 (Fall 2002).
  • Barry Rubin, The Tragedy of the Middle East (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
  • Emile Sahliyeh, "The Limits of State Power in the Middle East," Arab Studies Quarterly 22.4 (2000), 1-30.
  • Emile Sahliyeh, "The State of Human Rights in the Middle East," in Human Rights and Diversity: Area Studies Revisited, David P. Forsythe and Patrice C. McMahon, eds. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
  • Moshe Shemesh, "The IDF Raid on Samu': The Turning-Point In Jordan's Relations With Israel and the West Bank Palestinians"
  • Avi Shlaim, Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988).
  • U.N. Security Council Resolution 242
  • U.N. Security Council Resolution 194
  • U.N. General Assembly 181


[edit] Mizrahim


[edit] Music


[edit] New Historians

  • Rochelle Furstenberg, Post-Zionism: The Challenge to Israel (New York: American Jewish Committee, 1997).
  • Benny Morris, "The New Historiography: Israel Confronts Its Past," Tikkun 4: 19-23, 99-102.
  • Laurence J. Silberstein, The Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture (New York: Routledge, 1999)
  • Zeev Sternhell, The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State, trans. by David Maisel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
  • Meyrav Wurmser, "Can Israel Survive Post-Zionism?"


[edit] Political Culture


Also see [edu.htm Education], [arabs.htm Arabs in Israel and the Territories], and [islam.htm Political Islam in Palestine]


[edit] Political Islam


Also see [arabs.htm Arabs in Israel and the Territories] and [polcul.htm Political Culture]


[edit] Religious-Secular Divide among Jews in Israel

  • Shlomit Levy, Hanna Levinsohn, and Elihu Katz, "Beliefs, Observances and Social Interaction Among Israeli Jews: the Guttman Institute Report," in Charles S. Liebman and Katz, ed., The Jewishness of Israelis: Responses to the Guttman Report (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997).
  • Charles S. Liebman, "Religion and Democracy in Israel," in Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of Religion in Israel, Shlomo Deshen, Charles S. Liebman, and Moshe Skokeid, eds. (New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1995).
  • Charles S. Liebman, "Secular Judaism and its Prospects," in In Search of Identity: Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture, Dan Urian and Efraim Karsh, eds. (Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999).
  • Savyon Liebrecht, "Apples from the Desert," in Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories (New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1998).


[edit] Religious Zionism


[edit] Science and Society

[edit] Israeli Social History


Also see [identity.htm Jewish and Israeli Identity]


[edit] Visual Arts


[edit] Wars


Also see [arabs.htm Arabs in Israel and the Territories]


[edit] The Yishuv

  • Deborah S. Bernstein, ed., Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).
  • Alan Dowty, "'A Question that Outweighs All Others': Yitzhak Epstein and Zionist Recognition of the Arab Issue," Israel Studies 6.1 (2001), 34-54.
  • Alter Druyanow and Shulamit Laskov, Ketavim le-toldot Hibat-Tsiyon ve-yishuv Eretz-Yisra'el (Tel-Aviv: Universitat Tel-Aviv, 1982).
  • Toviyah Friling, Hets ba-arafel: David Ben-Guryon, hanhagat ha-Yishuv ve-nisyonot hatsalah ba-Sho'ah (Kiryat Sedeh-Boker: ha-Merkaz le-moreshet Ben-Guryon; Yerushalayim: ha-Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu 'a. sh. Avraham Harman, ha-Universitah ha-'Ivrit, 1998).
  • Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak, Origins of the Israeli Polity: Palestine Under the Mandate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).
  • Nahum Karlinsky, Perihat he-hadar: yazamut peratit ba-yishuv, 1890-1939 (Yerushalayim : Hotsa'atsefarim 'a. sh. Y.L. Magnes, ha-Universitah ha-'Ivrit, 2000).
  • Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000).
  • Early Zionist-Arab Encounters (Powerpoint presentation)


Also see [arabs.htm Arabs in Israel and the Territories], [mandate.htm Mandate Palestine], and [yishuv.htm The Yishuv]


[edit] Zionism and its Critics


Also see [h-zion.htm History of Zionism] and [t-zion.htm Zionist Thought]


[edit] Zionist Thought

  • Shlomo Avineri, The Making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (New York: Basic Books, 1981).
  • Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Jewish Identities: Fifty Intellectuals Answer Ben Gurion (Boston: Brill, 2002).
  • Martin Buber, Paths in Utopia, trans. by R.F.C. Hull (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1949).
  • Ben Halpern, The Idea of the Jewish State, 2d. ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969).
  • Ben Halpern and Jehuda Reinharz, Zionism and the Creation of a New Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
  • Yoram Hazony, The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israelís Soul, 1st ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
  • Arthur Hertzberg, The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel and Palestine (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003).
  • Arthur Hertzberg, ed., The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997).
  • Arthur Hertzberg, ed., "Vladimir Jabotinsky, 1880-1940," in The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997).
  • Vladimir Jabotinsky, "The Iron Wall: We & the Arabs"
  • Michael Keren, Ben-Gurion and the Intellectuals: Power, Knowledge, and Charisma, 1st ed. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983).
  • Judah L. Magnes, Dissenter in Zion: from the Writings of Judah L. Magnes, Arthur A. Goren, ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982).
  • Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds., The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary, 2d. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  • David N. Myers, Re-inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  • Dina Porat, The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).
  • Todd Samuel Presner, "'Clear Heads, Solid Stomachs, and Hard Muscles': Max Nordau and the Aesthetics of Jewish Regeneration," Modernism/modernity Vol. 10, No. 2.
  • Eliezer Schweid, "'Beyond' All That - Modernism, Zionism, Judaism," Israel Studies 1.1: 224-46.
  • Gideon Shimoni, The Zionist Ideology (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 1995).
  • Michael Stanislawski, Zionism and the Fin de SiËcle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).
  • Chaim Weizmann, "Zionism Needs a Living Context"


Also see [docsource.htm Documentary Source Readers], [h-zion.htm History of Zionism], and [c-zion.htm Zionism and its Critics]


[edit] Zionist Settlement and Early Colonies

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