Bibliography — Zionism

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 Consciousness. New York: St Martin’s, 1987.

Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Ben-Sasson, H.H. (ed.). A History of the Jewish People. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976.

Bickerton, Ian, and Carla Klausner. A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Kansas City: University of Missouri, Pearson College Division, Seventh Edition, 2014.

Cohen, Hillel. Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration With Zionism, 1917-1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

Cohen, Michael (ed.). The British Mandate in Palestine: A Centenary Volume, 1920-2020. Routledge, 2020.

Cohen, Naomi W. The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2003.

Dinur, Ben Zion. Israel and the Diaspora. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1969.

Dowty, Alan. The Jewish State: A Century Later. University of California Press, 1998.

Edelheit, Hershel, and Abraham J. Edelheit. History of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary. Routledge, 2019.

Etkes, I., and David Biale. The Invention of a Tradition: The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024.

Feld, Marjorie N. The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism. New York: New York University Press, 2024.

Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East. New York: Avon Books, 1989.

Gilbert, Martin. Israel: A History. New York: Rosetta Books, 2014.

Gitelman, Zvi (ed.). The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Goldscheider, Calvin, and Alan S. Zuckerman. The Transformation of the Jew. University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Gorny, Yosef. Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948: A Study of Ideology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

Greenstein, Howard R. Turning Point: Zionism and Reform Judaism. Scholars Press, 1981.

Greenstein, Joseph. Yom Ha’Medinah: Israel Independence Day. New York: Jewish National Fund of America, 1950.

Haim, Sylvia G., and Elie Kedourie. Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel. London: Routledge, 2015.

Halpern, Ben. The Idea of the Jewish State. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea.Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997.

Herzl, Theodor. Der Judenstaat. Project Gutenberg, 2008.

Hever, Hannan. Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism: Chapters in Literary Politics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

Horowitz, Dan and Moshe Lissak. Origins of the Israeli Polity: Palestine Under the Mandate. Chicago University Press, 1978.

Horowitz, David. State in the Making.New York: Knopf, 1953.

Hurewitz, J.C. Struggle for Palestine.New York: W.W. Norton, Greenwood Press, 1950; reprinted by Greenwood Press, 1968.

Khalaf, Issa. Politics in Palestine: Arab Factionalism and Social Disintegration, 1939-1948. Albany: State University of New York, 1991.

Laqueur, Walter. A History of Zionism. New York, 1972.

Mahler, Gregory. Politics and Government in Israel: Maturation of a Modern State. Rowman and Littlefield, 2011.

Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Metzer, Jacob. The Divided Economy of Mandatory Palestine. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Penslar, Derek J. Zionism: An Emotional State. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023.

Radosh, Allis, and Ronald Radosh. A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel.New York: HarperCollins, 2009.

Rybak, Jan. Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe: Nation-Building in War and Revolution, 1914-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Schwartz, Dov, and Batya Stein. Religious Zionism: History and Ideology. Academic Studies Press, 2008.

Shapira, Anita. Israel: A History.Waltham, MA: Brandeis, 2012.

Sokolow, Nahum. History of Zionism 1600-1918. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919.

Stein, Kenneth W. The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939.University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Sykes, Christopher. Crossroads to Israel, 1917-1948.Indiana University Press, 1965.

Troy, Gil. The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland — Then, Now, Tomorrow. University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Tuten, Eric Engel. Between Capital and Land: The Jewish National Fund’s Finances and Land-Purchase Priorities in Palestine 1939-1945. Routledge, 2016.

Urofsky, Melvin I. American Zionism From Herzl to the Holocaust. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Vogt, Stefan, Derek Jonathan Penslar, and Arieh Bruce Saposnik (eds.). Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2023.

Vital, David. Origins of Zionism.Oxford University Press, 1975.

Yadgar, Yaacov. Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism. New York: SUNY Press, 2017.

Zweig, Ronald W. (ed.). David Ben-Gurion: Politics and Leadership in Israel. London: Cass, 1991.

Articles

Abramson, Scott, and Kenneth Stein, “The Economy of the Yishuv and the State of Israel,” Center for Israel Education, March 2025.

Abramson, Scott, and Kenneth Stein, “Jewish Immigration to the Land of Israel (Zion) to 1949,” Center for Israel Education, March 2025.

Allon, Yigal, “Lessons From the War of Independence,” from Sefer Hapalmach, translated by Roni Eshel and edited by Ken Stein, 1952.

“An Annotated Bibliography of Basic Books on Zionism, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” Center for Israel Education, 2024.

Arkush, Allan, “Cultural Zionism Today,” Israel Studies 19, 2 (Summer 2014): 1-14.

Avineri, Shlomo, “Zionism as a National Liberation Movement,” Jerusalem Quarterly, Winter 1979, 133-143.

Ben-Israel, Hedva, “Zionism and European Nationalisms: Comparative Aspects,” Israel Studies 8, 1 (2003): 91-104.

Ben-Moshe, Danny, “The Oslo Peace Process and Two Views on Judaism and Zionism, 1992-1996,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 32, 1 (May 2005): 13-27.

Berman, Ari, “Religious Zionism: Moving History Forward,” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought 53, No. 3 (2021): 7-16.

Bronstein, Judith, “Zioinism, Medieval Culture, and National Discourse,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 62 (2017): 119-134.

Brown, Michael, “Divergent Paths: Early Zionism in Canada and the United States,” Jewish Social Studies 44, 2 (1982): 149-168.

Center for Israel Education, “The New Yishuv: An Introduction,” January 2025.

Center for Israel Education, “What Is Zionism?” October 2024.

Cohen, Hillel, “Zionism as a Blessing to the Arabs: History of an Argument,” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 157-172.

Cohen, Naomi Wiener, “The Reaction of Reform Judaism in America to Political Zionism (1897-1922),” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 40, 4 (1951): 361-394.

Daccarett, Paula, “1890s Zionism Reconsidered: Joseph Marco Baruch,” Jewish History 19, 3-4 (2005): 315-345.

Divine, Donna Robinson, “Zionism and the Politics of Authenticity,” Israel Studies 19, 2 (Summer 2014): 94-110.

Don-Yehiya, Eliezer, “Zionism in Retrospective,” Modern Judaism 18, 3 (October 1998): 267-276.

Eisen, Arnold M., “Reflections on the State of Zionist Thought,” Modern Judaism 18, 3 (October 1998): 253-266.

Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain, and Neil Caplan, “Arab-Zionist Negotiations During the Mandate: An Unbridgeable Divide,” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 269-285.

Fischer, Shlomo, “Religious Zionism in Israel Today: Towards the Center,” Jewish People Policy Institute, November 29, 2016.

Friling, Tuvia, “David Ben-Gurion’s ‘Road Map’ to Independence, May 1948,” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 252-267.

Gal, Allon, “The Mission Motif in American Zionism (1898-1948),” American Jewish History 75, 4 (1986): 363-385.

Gelber, Yoav, “Is Zionism Colonialism?” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 221-235.

Goell, Yohai, “Aliya in the Zionism of an American Oleh: Judah L. Magnes,” American Jewish Historical Quarterly, “Zionism in America: Magnes, Kallen, and Brandeis” 65, 2 (1975): 99-120.

Goldstein, J., “The Attitude of the Jewish and the Russian Intelligentsia to Zionism in the Initial Period (1897-1904),” The Slavonic and East European Review 64, 4 (October 1986): 546-556.

Gorny, Yosef, “Thoughts on Zionism as a Utopian Ideology,” Modern Judaism 18, 3 (October 1998): 241-251.

Hametz, Maura, “Zionism, Emigration, and Antisemitism in Trieste: Central Europe’s ‘Gateway to Zion,’ 1896-1943,” Jewish Social Studies 13, 3 (2007): 103-134.

Herf, Jeffrey, “Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionism,” Fathom, Spring 2016.

Hever, Hannah, and Lisa Katz, “The Post-Zionist Condition,” Critical Inquiry 38, 3 (2012): 630-648.

Jewish Encyclopedia, “Zionism,” Volume XII, New York and London, Funk and Wagnalls (1906).

Katsman, Hayim, “The Hyphen Cannot Hold: Contemporary Trends in Religious-Zionism,” Israel Studies Review 35, No. 2 (2020): 154-174.

Kelman, H.C., “Israel in Transition From Zionism to Post-Zionism,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 555, 1 (January 1998): 46-61.

Kelemen, Paul, “Zionism and the British Labour Party: 1917-39,” Social History 21, 1 (January 1996): 71-87.

Landau, Jacob M., “Muslim Turkish Attitudes Towards Jews, Zionism and Israel,” Die Welt Des Islams 28, 1-4 (1988): 291-300.

Laqueur, W., “Zionism and Its Liberal Critics, 1896-1948,” Journal of Contemporary History 6, 4 (1971): 161-182.

Levenson, Alan, “Gentile Reception of Herzlian Zionism, a Reconsideration,” Jewish History 16, 2 (2002): 187-202.

Litvinoff, Barnet, “The Fall From Grace of Zionism,” Journal of Palestine Studies 10, 1 (1980): 185-187.

Loeffler, James, “Richard Wagner’s ‘Jewish Music’: Antisemitism and Aesthetics in Modern Jewish Culture,” Jewish Social Studies 15, 2 (2009): 2-36.

Luz, Ehud, “The Moral Price of Sovereignty: The Dispute About the Use of Military Power Within Zionism,” Modern Judaism 7, 1 (February 1987): 51-98.

Masliyah, Sadok H., “Zionism in Iraq,” Middle Eastern Studies 25, 2 (April 1989): 216-237.

Mendes-Flohr, Paul R., “Between Existentialism and Zionism,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 47, 3 (September 1979): 429-440.

Miller, Rory, “The Anti-Zionist ‘Jewish Khazar’ Syndrome in the Official British Mind,” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 29-45.

Parzen, Herbert, “Conservative Judaism and Zionism (1896-1922),” Jewish Social Studies 23, 4 (October 1961): 235-264.

Pianko, Noam, “Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn,” Religious Studies Review 37, 2 (2011): 95-146.

Porat, D., “‘Amalek’s Accomplices’ Blaming Zionism for the Holocaust: Anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel during the 1980s,” Journal of Contemporary History 27, 4 (October 1992): 695-729.

Ram, Uri, “Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 19, 1-2 (December 2007): 21-33.

Regev, Motti, “To Have a Culture of Our Own: On Israeliness and Its Variants,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 23, 2 (2000): 223-247.

Reinharz, J., “Chaim Weizmann: The Shaping of a Zionist Leader Before the First World War,” Journal of Contemporary History 18, 2 (April 1, 1983): 205-231.

Reinharz, Jehuda, “The Conflict Between Zionism and Traditionalism Before World War I,” Jewish History 7, 2 (1993): 59-78.

Reinharz, Jehuda, and Motti Golani, “Chaim Weizmann: From the Balfour Declaration to the Establishment of the State of Israel,” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 235-252.

Sacks, Jonathan, “Anti-Zionism Is the New Anti-Semitism,” Newsweek, April 3, 2016.

Saposnik, Arieh Bruce, “Europe and Its Orients in Zionist Culture Before the First World War,” The Historical Journal 49, 4 (2006): 105-123.

Schmidt, Sarah, “The Zionist Conversion of Louis D. Brandeis,” Jewish Social Studies 37, 1 (Winter 1975): 18-34.

Schweid, Eliezer, “Beyond All That: Modernism, Zionism, Judaism,” Israel Studies 1, 1 (1996): 224-246.

Shapira, Anita, “Anti-Semitism and Zionism,” Modern Judaism 15, 3 (October 1995): 215-232.

Shapira, Anita, “Labour Zionism and the October Revolution,” Journal of Contemporary History 24, 4 (October 1989): 623-656.

Shapira, Anita, “Zionism in the Age of Revolution,” Modern Judaism 18, 3 (October 1998): 217-226.

Shenhav, Yehouda, “Modernity and the Hybridization of Nationalism and Religion: Zionism and the Jews of the Middle East as a Heuristic Case,” Theory and Society 36, 1 (February 2007): 1-30.

Shindler, Colin, “The Origins of Militant Zionism During the British Mandate,” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 205-221.

Stein, Kenneth, “Legal Protection and Circumvention of Rights for Cultivators in Mandatory Palestine,” in Palestinian Society and Politics, Joel S. Migdal (ed.), Princeton University Press (1980), 233-260.

Stein, Kenneth, “One Hundred Years of Social Change: The Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem,” in New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State, New York University Press (1991), 57-81.

Stein, Kenneth, “Zionism and Israel Are Pro-Choice: Embrace Them Both,” Center for Israel Education, September 15, 2017.

Stein, Kenneth W., “Zionist Land Acquisition: A Core Element in Establishing Israel,” in The British Mandate in Palestine, Michael Cohen (ed.), London, Routledge (2020): 189-205.

Stockton, Ronald R., “Christian Zionism: Prophecy and Public Opinion,” Middle East Journal 41, 2 (1987): 234-253.

Stork, Joe, and Sharon Rose, “Zionism and American Jewry,” Journal of Palestine Studies 3, 3 (1974): 39-57.

Taub, Gadi, “In Defense of Zionism,” Fathom Journal, October 2014.

Taylor, Alan R., “Zionism and Jewish History,” Journal of Palestine Studies 2, 1 (Winter 1972): 35-51.

Taylor, Lev, “Why Were the Founders of Liberal Judaism in Britain Opposed to Zionism?” European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe 53, No. 2 (2020): 109-123.

Troy, Gil, “The Continuing Promise of American Zionism,” Commentary, April 16, 2018.

Troy, Gil, “When ‘Oom’ Became ‘Shmoom’: How the Most Enduring Hatred, Anti-Semitism, Became Infused With the Most Hated Hatred, Racism, to Israel’s Dismay and to the UN’s Detriment,” Israel Studies 25, No. 1 (2020): 47-72.

Vital, David, “Ahad Ha’am as the Sage of Zionism,” Jewish History 4, 2 (1990): 25-32.

Weissbrod, Lilly, “From Labour Zionism to New Zionism: Ideological Change in Israel,” Theory and Society 10, 6 (November 1981): 777-803.

Weissbrod, Lilly, “Religion as National Identity in a Secular Society,” Review of Religious Research 24, 3 (March 1983): 188-205.

Wiemer, Reinhard, “The Theories of Nationalism and of Zionism in the First Decade of the State of Israel,” Middle Eastern Studies 23, 2 (1987): 172-187.

Wistrich, Robert S., “Zionism and Its Jewish Assimilationist Critics (1897-1948),” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society 4, 2 (1998): 59-111.

Wistrich, Robert S., “Zionism and Its Religious Critics in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna,” Jewish History 10, 1 (1996): 93-111.

Yiftachel, Oren, “The Myths of Zionism,” Journal of Palestine Studies 35, 3 (2006): 124-126.