Dr. Kenneth Stein provides an overview of scholarly articles published from the 1880s through 1991 that look at the Yishuv (area of Jewish settlement) and the Palestine area at large under the Ottoman Empire (through December 1917) and the British Mandate (through Israeli independence in May 1948).
In the late 1970s and 1980s, while completing my book The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 and several articles thereafter in the early 1990s, I surveyed hundreds of articles that appeared in scholarly journals and edited volumes. That assembled collection appears here in this bibliography of almost 1,300 entries; the articles have been placed into 13 categories for easier use by the reader and researcher. The articles listed here were almost all published before the mid-1990s. The bibliography does not include articles published from 1992 forward; I simply stopped adding to the bibliography at that time.
A large number of the articles referenced here were published contemporaneous to unfolding events in the Arab-Zionist and great power clash over Palestine. Some go as far back as 1880. A number of the articles were originally written in Arabic, Hebrew, French or German and have not been translated into English. Of particular interest are some of the earliest articles written by scholars who later went on to write major works on Palestine and the conflict. One will also find articles penned by political leaders, statesmen and politicians who lived the politics of the day, including the likes of Awni Abdel Hadi, Musa Alami, Chaim Arlosoroff, Norman Bentwich, Sir Alec Cunningham, Wyndham Deedes, Abba Eban, Eliahu Elath, Felix Frankfurter, Sir John Hope-Simpson, H. St. John Philby, Ernest Richmond, Arthur Ruppin, Eugene Rostow, Sir Herbert Samuel and Chaim Weizmann, to name a few. And on the popular literature and scholarly side, articles will be found here by George Antonius, Alfred Bonne, H.A.R Gibb, J.C. Hurewitz, Elie Kedourie, Walid Khalidi, Elizabeth Monroe, Arnold Toynbee, Yaacov Vashitz and a host of others.
As all clever researchers know, articles have merit. Often, equal or more value are the footnotes referenced in a particular article. They lead to more sources not considered. Some of the best scholarship need not necessarily always be the most recent scholarship. Only a few of the articles noted here are online accessible; they were published before the computer age and digitization of collections.
Assembling the bibliography took more than a quarter-century. Many colleagues, interns, former students and office assistants made essential contributions to the bibliography’s life and development. To all of you too numerous to name, deepest appreciation is extended for your diligence and hard work. My thanks to all of them.
— Ken Stein, April 1995
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