Subject: Judaism Reading List: Zionism (Pt. IX)
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              Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism
                  Part IX: Zionism and the Birth of Israel
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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).

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Subject: IX.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.

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Subject: IX.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.

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Subject: IX.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.)

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Subject: IX.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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Subject: Additional Suggestions

The following books have also been suggested, but I need additional citation
information and a short synopsis in order to properly enter them onto the
reading list:

[Bel??].Bel, J. Bonyer. _Terror Out of Zion_

[Ben83].Ben-Ami, Yitshaq. _Years Of Wrath, Days Of Glory: Memoirs From The
        Irgun_. New York, N.Y. : Shengold Publishers, 1983.

[Cho??].Chouraqui, Andre. _A Man Alone_

[Coh66].Cohen, Geulah. _Woman Of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist,
        1943-1948_. Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. New York :
        Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1966.

[Eld??].Eldad, Israel. _The Jewish Revolution_

[Eli84].Eliav, Yaacov. _Wanted_. Translated and adapted from the Hebrew
               by Mordecai Schreiber. New York : Shengold Publishers, c1984. 

[Fra??].Frank, Gerald. _The Deed_ [About the assasination of Lord Moyne]

[Gil78].Gilbert, Martin _Exile And Return: The Struggle For A Jewish
        Homeland_. Philadelphia : Lippincott, c1978.

[Git??].Gitlin, Jan. _The Conquest of Acre Fortress_

[Kat53].Katz, Doris. _The Lady Was A Terrorist, During Israel's War Of
        Liberation_. New York : Shiloni Publishers, 1953.

[Kat??a] Katz, Samuel. _Battleground_

[Kat??b] Katz, Samuel. _Days of Fire_

[Mer??].Meridor, Yakov. _Long is the Road to Freedom_ [About the Irgun exile
.in Africa] 

[OBr86].O'Brien, Coner Cruise. _The Siege: The Saga Of Israel And Zionism_.
        New York : Simon and Schuster, c1986. 

[Per79].Perl, William. _The Four Front War: From The Holocaust To The Promised
        Land_. New York : Crown Publishers, c1979. [About illegal immigration]
        
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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.

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