History is not the narrative of one view, polemic or preaching. In our historiography lists of Zionism/Israel, Palestinians and other topics, we have concentrated on well-known and respected scholarship. Enabling users to evolve their independent views on a topic, event or time period makes for comprehensive learning. History is best recounted from multiple vantage points, with sources, ideas and opinions blended to form a rope with multiple threads that weave a story’s essence. Narrative histories are inevitably one-sided and polemical; blending causation and events explains nuanced complexities. We have included collections about Palestine before the State of Israel — the Yishuv — including comprehensive compilations of the Palestinians, British and Zionists before and after 1948. In addition to the broad historiographic listings of events, timelines situate events in context, along with lists of key quotations over decades about particular topics, such as a two-state solution, American officials’ attitudes toward Zionism/Israel, and Hamas’ hostile views of Jews, Zionism and Israel.
Among Palestinians, Hamas popularity soars, two state solution at lowest ebb, Rise in European Anti-semitism, and Michael Mihlstein’s insightful analysis an essential read.
March 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to guide understanding of the historiography of Israel. Books ʻAdwan, Sami ʻAbd Ar-Razzaq, Dan Bar-On and Eyal J. Naveh. Side by Side: Parallel…
Scholarly articles published from the 1880s through 1991.
Compiled by Dr. Ken Stein, June 2021 These sources and references unfold the history of the Jewish state through 1949, from state-seeking to state-making to state-keeping.
Musa Alami, “The Lesson of Palestine,” Middle East Journal, Volume 3, No. 4, October 1949, pp. 373-405 Reprinted with permission of The Middle East Institute, October 2021 In this 1949 article published in Middle East…
S. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish (eds.) have provided a very useful and authoritative compilation of 15 essays, covering almost all topics and disciplines that pertain to modern Israel.
Kenneth Stein, “A General Historiographic and Bibliographic Review of Literature on Palestine and the Palestinian Arabs,” Orient, Vol. 1, 1981, 100-112. Introduction Historically, the area that became geographic Palestine under the Mandate fell under the…