Annotated guidance on the best sources to read, watch and listen to in order to unfold crucial Israel-related topics.
CIE has compiled the following list of books, articles and interviews, including many available on our website, to guide understanding of the unfolding of the October 1973 Middle East war and its consequences. Books Adan, Avraham. On…
CIE has compiled the following list of books, articles, videos on our website, and surveys of American Jewish opinion to guide understanding of the relationship between Diaspora Jewry and Israel.
Books Abadi, Jacob. British Withdrawal From the Middle East: The Economic and Strategic Imperatives. Princeton, NJ: Kingston Press, 1982. Ahiram, Ephraim, and Alfred Tovias (eds.). Whither EU-Israel Relations? Common and Divergent Interest. Frankfurt: Lang, 1995….
Books and Documents Alon, Yoav. The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. Bar-Joseph, Uri. The Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948. Abingdon: Taylor…
Books and Documents Oren Barak, The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society. Albany: State University of New York, 2009. Benedetta Berti, The Ongoing Battle for Beirut: Old Dynamics and New Trends, Institute…
June 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of U.S.-Israel relations. Books Alteras, Isaac. Eisenhower and Israel: U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1953-1960. Gainesville: University…
June 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to guide understanding of Iran and its relations with Israel and the Jewish people. Books Abrahamian, Ervand. Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton, NJ:…
June 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to help unfold Israel’s foreign relations with key countries in eastern and southern Asia. We have divided the bibliography into five areas: China,…
April 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Israel’s foreign policy. Bibliographies addressing specific aspects of Israel’s foreign relations can be…
June 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Israel’s capital, the holy city of Jerusalem. Books Adelman, Madelaine, and Miriam Fendius…
May 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to guide understanding of the modern Middle East. For a supplement to this bibliography, click on CIE’s Annotated Bibliography of Basic Books on…
April 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Israel’s relations with the United Nations. ‘’ Books Amitzur Ilan. Bernadotte in Palestine,…
Scholarly articles published from the 1880s through 1991.
March 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles, including some available on our website, to guide understanding of Zionism. Books Almog, Shmuel. Zionism and History: The Rise of a New Jewish…
Foreign Relations of the United States 1969-1976, Vol. 25: Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973, published in 2011 and running more than 1,200 pages in covering all of 1973 and the first two weeks of 1974….
In the public realm, testimony given in hearings before U.S. Senate and House committees is among the best that can be obtained. Habitually the staffs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign…