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- Subject: Judaism Reading List: Zionism (Pt. VIII)
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- Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism
- Part VIII: Zionism and the Birth of Israel
- [Last Change: $Date: 1994/09/17 18:07:09 $ $Revision: 2.9 $]
- [Last Post: Thu Aug 18 11:07:08 1994]
-
- This message is intended to provide readers of soc.culture.jewish with a list
- of references to allow them to learn more about the history of the state of
- Israel and what Zionism is. It does not cover current Israeli or
- middle-eastern politics. Discussions of politics are held in
- talk.politics.mideast. However, some of the entries on the list should
- provide useful background and insight into those discussions.
-
- Information on where to obtain these books, including an explanation of the
- <INP> and <JPS> notations, may be found in Part I of the Reading List
- (judaism/reading-lists/general).
-
- This list is organized as a digest; it may be successfully undigestified by
- programs such as "gnus".
-
- Reproduction of this posting for commercial use is subject to restriction. See
- Part 1 (general) for more details.
-
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- Subject: Archival and Credits
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- Credits:
- This list is based primarily on sources obtained during a course on Zionism
- taught by Dr. Deborah Lipstadt at UCLA, as well as the "70 books about
- Israel 70" section in the _Third Jewish Catalog_. Other contributors include
- A. Engler Anderson, David A Guberman, Gary Kulwin, Reuven M. Lerner and Oren
- Levine. Suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are *brief*
- annotations for the entries. I'm particularly looking for information on the
- various zionistic movements.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: VIII.1. ZIONISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISRAEL
-
- [Chu67] Churchill, Randolph S. & Winston S. _The Six Day War_. Penguin.
- 1967. [a classic contemporary account]
-
- [CohM87] Cohen, Mitchell. _Zion & State: Nation, Class and the Shaping of
- Modern Israel_. Blackwell. 1987. [the struggle between mainstream
- and Revisionist Zionism during the Mandatory and early statehood
- periods]
-
- [CohN75] Cohen, Naomi. _American Jews and the Zionist Idea_. Ktav. 1975
-
- [Gre??] Greenspahn, Frederick E. (ed.). _Essential Papers on Israel and the
- Ancient Near East_. NYU Press.
-
- [Hal77] Halkin, Hillel. _Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist's
- Polemic_. JPS, Philadelphia PA. 1977 <JPS>. [Halkin, an American oleh,
- addresses six fictional letters to his imaginary friend, explaining to
- him why he should make aliyah. Considered a classic among American
- olim in Israel (esp. the non-orthodox olim, since Halkin basically
- espouses a secular Zionist position).]
-
- [Hal76] Halpern, Ben. _The Idea of a Jewish State_. Harvard University
- Press, 1976
-
- [Har88] Harkabi, Yehoshafat. _Israel's Fateful Hour_. Harper & Row. 1988.
- [the former director of IDF military intelligence, Hebrew University
- professor of international relations, and winner of the 1993 Israel
- Prize, explains Israel's need for peace and the feasibility of "land
- for peace"; based on the author's _Hachpaot Goraliot_]
-
- [Her17] Herzl, Theodore. _The Jewish State_. Federation of American Zionists,
- New York. 1917
-
- [Her75] Herzog, Chaim. _The War of Atonement_. Steinmatzky. 1975. [by
- Israel's former president]
-
- [Her79] Hertzberg, Arthur. _The Zionist Idea_. Atheneum. 1979. <JPS> [An
- outstanding 85 page introductory essay and anthology of writings by
- leading Zionists]
-
- [Jaf89a] Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies of Tel Aviv University. _The West
- Bank and Gaza: Israel's Options for Peace. Tel Aviv University. 1989.
- [essential background reading from a study group led by Aharon Yariv,
- a former director of IDF military intelligence; initially sponsored by
- the American Jewish Congress and co-sponsored by the Anti-Defamation
- League of B'nai Brith]
-
- [Jaf89b] Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies of Tel Aviv University. _The West
- Bank and Gaza: Toward A Solution_. Tel Aviv University. 1989. [a
- companion to Jaf89b; independent proposals by the Jaffee Center study
- group]
-
- [Laq72] Laqueur, Walter. _A History of Zionism_ Schocken Books, New York.
- 1972
-
- [Man76] Mandel, Neville. _The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I_.
- University of California. 1976.
-
- [Mel93] Melman, Yossi. _The New Israelis_. Keter. [The first half of the book
- is a history of Zionism, along with an analysis of the decisions,
- accomplishments, compromises, and mistakes that the major leaders
- made. The second half of the book discusses various aspects of
- Israeli society, such as religious groups, Israeli Arabs, Sefardim,
- defense needs, and so on. Note: Melman is clearly a left-wing secular
- Israeli.]
-
- [Rub84] Rubenstein, Amnon. _The Zionist Dream Revisited_. Schocken Books, New
- York. 1984. [Traces the cumulative tradition of Israeli intellectuals
- from its Herzlian and Second Aliayh roots to the present day and
- delves into the reasons for the right-wing reaction that has emerged
- since the Six-Day War. Very political.]
-
- [Sac77] Sachar, Howard Morley. _The Course of Modern Jewish History_. Delta.
- 1977.
-
- [Seg86] Segev, Tom. _1949: The First Israelis_. The Free Press, 1986. [A
- detailed history of the first year of Israel's existence, based on an
- extensive study of official documents and the press, showing how
- ideology met with the reality of building a state.]
-
- [Sim62] Simon, Leon. _Selected Essays of Ahad Ha-'Am_ Athenium, 1962.
-
- [Syk73] Sykes, Christopher. _Crossroads to Israel: 1917-1948_. Midland
- Books. 1973.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: VIII.2. THE FOUNDERS
-
- [Beg51] Begin, Menachem. _The Revolt: Story of the Irgun_. Schuman, New York.
- 1951.
-
- [Ben54] Ben-Gurion, David. _Rebirth and Destiny of Israel_. Philosophical
- Library, New York. 1954.
-
- [Eba72] Eban, Abba. _My Country: The Story of Modern Israel_. Random House,
- New York. 1972.
-
- [Jab87] Jabotinsky, Z'ev. _The War and the Jew_. Altalena Press, New York.
- 1987.
-
- [Rab79] Rabin, Yitzhak. _The Rabin Memoirs_. Little, Brown. 1979.
-
- [Sch86] Schechtman, J. B. _The Life and Times of Jabotinsky_. Eshel Books,
- Silver Spring MD. 1986. (2 vols).
-
- [Tev87] Teveth, Shabtai. _Ben Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886-1948_. Houghton
- Mifflin. 1987. [1988 National Jewish Book Award winner]
-
- [Wei66] Weitzmann, Chaim. _Trial and Error_. JPS, Philadelphia. Schocken,
- New York. 1966.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: VIII.3. ZIONISTIC MOVEMENTS
-
- [Luz88] Luz, Ehud. _Parallels Meet: Religion and Nationalism in the Early
- Zionist Movement, 1882-1904_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. 1988. ISBN
- 0-8276-0297-9. <JPS>
-
- [Sha88] Shavit, Jacob _Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948_. F.
- Cass, Totowa NJ. 1988.
-
- (I'm still looking for references in this area. I'd like to have some sources
- on the major movements (Hertzl's) as well as the other significant
- organizations, such as Z'ev Jabotinsky's.)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: VIII.4. JUDAISM IN ISRAEL
-
- [Abr76] Abramov, S. Zalman. _Perpetual Dilemma: Jewish Religion in the Jewish
- State_. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford NJ. 1976
-
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