Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual
Origins of the Jewish State. Basic Books, 1981. Out of Print. [A series
of eighteen profiles of major thinkers: Krochmal, Graetz, Hess, through
Jabotinsky, Kook and Ben Gurion.]
Eban, Abba. My Country: The Story of Modern Israel.
Random House, New York. 1972. Out of Print.
[Fro90]
Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the
Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. Avon Books
(Pap Trd); 1990. Paperback. ISBN 0-380713-00-4. [The Balfour Declaration and
the early history of the Mandate in the context of the larger international
situation.]
[Gal92]
Gal, Allon. David Ben Gurion and the American Alignment for a
Jewish State (Modern Jewish Experience). Indiana Univ Pr; 1992. Hardcover.
ISBN 0-253325-34-X.
[Hal98]
Halamish, Aviva; Cummings, Ora (Translator). The Exodus Affair:
Holocaust Survivors and the Struggle for Palestine (Religion, Theology and the
Holocaust). Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade); 1998. Hardcover. ISBN 0-815605-16-1.
[Hel00]
Heller, Joseph. The Birth of Israel, 1945-1949: Ben-Gurion and His
Critics. University Press of Florida; 2000. Hardcover. ISBN 0-813017-32-7.
[Her97]
Herzl, Theodor; Overberg, Henk (Translator). The Jews' State: A
Critical English Translation. Jason Aronson; 1997. Hardcover. ISBN
0-765759-73-X.
Hurewitz, J. C. The Struggle for Palestine. Schocken,
1976. Out of Print. [Reprint of the edition published by Norton, written in the
late 1940s as a thesis at Columbia. A detailed account of Arab and Jewish
politics in the Mandate and the Arab revolt from 1936 on.]
[Hur94]
Hurwitz, Harry Zvi; Denker, Patrick R. (ed). Begin: A
Portrait. Bnai Brith Books; 1994. Paperback. ISBN 0-910250-28-6.
Jabotinsky, Z'ev. The War and the Jew. Altalena Press,
New York. 1987.
[Jab98]
Jabotinsky, Vladimir; Sarig, Mordechai. The Political and Social
Philosophy of Ze'Ev Jabotinsky: Selected Writings. Vallentine Mitchell;
1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-853033-59-5.
[Jer96]
Jerusalem Report Staff; Horovitz, David (ed). Shalom, Friend: The
Life and Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin. Newmarket Press; 1996. Hardcover. ISBN
1-557042-87-X.
[Kat96]
Katz, Shmuel. Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze'Ev)
Jabotinsky. Barricade Books; 1996. Hardcover. ISBN 1-569800-42-1.
[Kur98]
Kurzman, Dan. Soldier of Peace: The Life of Yitzhak Rabin:
1922-1995. Harpercollins; 1998. Hardcover. ISBN 0-060186-84-4.
Salmon, Yosef. Religion and Zionism: First Encounters.
Hebrew University Magnes Press. November 2001. ISBN 965-493-092-7. [This book
deals with the role that Jewish religion played in the evolution of the Zionist
movement, both in the consolidation of a Jewish national consciousness and in
the actual day to day activity of the Jewish nationalist movement. Insofar as
national consciousness was concerned, a recurring question in the early
movement was whether religious identit constituted a necessary component of
nationalist identity. This book traces the tweists and turns of the interaction
between these two forces in Jewish history from the early 1860s until
1920.]
Schechtman, J. B. The Life and Times of Jabotinsky.
Eshel Books, Silver Spring MD. 1986. (2 vols). Out of Print. ISBN
0-935437-18-5.
[Sei90]
Seidman, Hillel; Schreiber, Mordecai. Menachem Begin: His Life and
Legacy. Shengold Pub; 1990. Hardcover. ISBN 0-884001-42-3.
[Sha98]
Shavit, Jacob. Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement
1925-1948. Frank Cass & Co; 1988. Hardcover. ISBN 0-714633-25-9.
[Sik89]
Sicker, Martin. Between Hashemites and Zionists: The Struggle for
Palestine, 1908-1988. Holmes & Meier Publishing, Inc; 1989. Hardcover.
ISBN 0-841911-76-2.
[StJ98]
St. John, Robert. Ben-Gurion: Builder of Israel. London Pub
Co; 1998. Hardcover. ISBN 0-961326-24-7.
Tuchman, Barbara. Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from
the Bronze Age to Balfour. Funk and Wagnalls, 1956. Ballantine Books
(Trd Pap); 1988. Paperback. Reissue edition. ISBN 0-345314-27-1. [British
cultural background to the Balfour Declaration.]
Weitzmann, Chaim. Trial and Error. JPS, Philadelphia.
Schocken, New York. 1966.
[Zad95]
Zadka, Saul. Blood in Zion: How the Jewish Guerrillas Drove the
British Out of Palestine. Brasseys Inc; 1995. Hardcover. ISBN
1-857531-36-1.
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