Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/zionism Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Part VIII: Zionism and the Birth of Israel [Last Change: $Date: 1993/06/08 18:00:53 $ $Revision: 2.1 $] [Last Post: Sun May 9 11:00:41 1993] 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 and 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". ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and 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 David A Guberman, Gary Kulwin 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. All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on israel.nysernet.org [192.77.173.2] in the directory: ~ftp/israel/lists/scj-faq They are available in the rtfm.mit.edu archives in the directory: pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism The following files make up the reading lists and are in the "reading-lists" subdirectory: general, traditional, chasidism, reform, conservative, reconstructionist, humanistic, zionism, antisemitism, intermarriage, periodicals. The following files make up the FAQ and are in the "FAQ" subdirectory: 01-FAQ-intro, 02-Who-We-Are, 03-Torah-Halacha, 04-Observance, 05-Worship, 06-Jewish-Thought, 07-Jews-As-Nation, 08-Israel, 09-Antisemitism, 10-Miscellaneous. The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [Hal77] Halkin, Hillel. _Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist's Polemic_. JPS, Philadelphia PA. 1977 . [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_] [Her70] Herzl, Theodore. _The Jewish State_. Herzl, New York. 1970 [Her75] Herzog, Chaim. _The War of Atonement_. Steinmatzky. 1975. [by Israel's former president] [Her79] Hertzberg, Arthur. _The Zionist Idea_. Atheneum. 1979. [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. [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 [Beg??] Begin, Menachem. _The Revolt_. [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. [Jab??] Jabotinsky, Z'ev. _The Warn and the Jew_. [Rab79] Rabin, Yitzhak. _The Rabin Memoirs_. Little, Brown. 1979. [Sch??] Schectman, J. D. _The Jabotinsky Story_. (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 [Luz??] Luz, Ehud. _Parallels Meet: Religion and Nationalism in the Early Zionist Movement, 1882-1904_. JPS: Philadelphia PA. ISBN 0-8276-0297-9. (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 [Abr??] Abramov, S. Zalman. _Perpetual Dilemma: Jewish Religion in the Jewish State_. World Union for Progressive Judaism, New York. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@aero.org. End of Judaism Reading List Part VIII (Zionism) Digest ************************** ------- -- [W]:The Aerospace Corp. M1/055 * POB 92957 * LA, CA 90009-2957 * 310/336-8228 [Email]:faigin@aerospace.aero.org [Vmail]:310/336-5454 Box#13149 "And as they say, the rest is compost"