ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
United States
Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri (HSTL)
Papers as U.S. Senator and Vice President (SV)
Presidential papers:
Confidential File (CF)
Official File (OF)
President’s Personal File (PPF)
President’s Secretary’s File (PSF)
White House Office of the President’s Correspondence Secretary Files (PSF)
White House Scrapbooks
Postpresidential Papers
Oral history interviews:
Dean Acheson, Clark M. Clifford, Matthew J. Connelly, George M. Elsey, Oscar Ewing, Abraham Feinberg, A. J. Granoff, Averell Harriman, Loy Henderson, Robert Lovett, Max Lowenthal, Ted Marks, Edward D. McKim, Philleo Nash, Mary Ethel Noland, Harry Rosenfeld, Samuel I. Rosenman, Harry H. Vaughan, Fraser Wilkins.
The papers of:
Dean Acheson, Eben A. Ayers, Clark M. Clifford, Matthew J. Connelly, Jonathan Daniel, Democratic National Committee, George M. Elsey, A. J. Granoff, Richard C. Holbrooke (interviews with Clark Clifford, February to November 1988), Edward Jacobson, Charles F. Knox, Jr., Howard J. McGrath, Frank McNaughton, Charles S. Murphy, Philleo Nash, David K. Niles, Mary Ethel Noland, Harry Rosenfeld, Samuel I. Rosenman, Charles G. Ross, Joel D. Wolfsohn.
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LOC)
The papers of:
Emanuel Celler, Ben Cohen, Felix Frankfurter, Loy Henderson, Harold Ickes, Philip Jessup, Robert A. Taft
Columbia University, New York, New York (CU)
The papers of James G. McDonald
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (SL)
The papers of Freda Kirchwey
National Archives, College Park, Maryland (NA)
Department of State, Record Group 59: Palestine Files
Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
University of Minnesota Archives, Minneapolis, Minnesota (UM)
The papers of Max Lowenthal
Center for Jewish History, New York City
American Jewish Historical Society and YIVO Collections
Great Britain
Public Records Office, Kew Gardens, London (PRO)
Foreign Office (FO) FO 371
Cabinet Papers (CAB)
Israel
Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem (CZA)
Jewish Agency, Political Department, American Section
Chaim Weizmann Archives, Rehovot (WA)
The papers of Chaim Weizmann
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS). Vols. from 1944 to 1949. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Israel Documents, December 1947 to May 1948 (ID). Ed. Gedalia Yogev. Jerusalem: Israel Government Printing Office, 1979.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948, 1949–1952. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961, 1965.
United Nations, General Assembly. Official Records, First Special Session, 1947.
———. Official Records, Second Session, 1947. Report of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine.
ARTICLES AND SPEECHES
Bergson, Eliahu. “Unexpected Recognition: Some Observations of a Last-Gasp Campaign in the U.S. State Department to Abort a Jewish State.” Modern Judaism 19 (1999): 133–71.
Clifford, Clark. “Clifford Sets the Record Straight.” Talk delivered before the American Jewish Historical Society and the American Historical Association. Near East Report, Dec. 29, 1976.
————. “Recognizing Israel.” American Heritage 28 (April 1977): 4–11.
Cohen, Michael J. “Truman and the State Department: The Palestine Trusteeship Proposal, March 1948.” Jewish Social Studies (Spring 1981): 165–78.
Elath, Eliahu. “Harry S. Truman—The Man and Statesman,” First Annual Harry S. Truman Lecture, May 18, 1977, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Harry S. Truman Research Institute.
————. “Samuel Irving Rosenman and His Contribution Before the Establishment of the State of Israel” [Hebrew]. Molad 8, no. 37–38 (Spring 1976): 448–454. Translated by Tuvia Friling.
Foner, Eric. “The President and the Prophet.” The Nation, Feb. 5, 2007.
Ganin, Zvi. “The Limits of American Jewish Political Power: America’s Retreat from Partition, November 1947–March 1948.” Jewish Social Studies 39 (Winter-Spring 1977): 1–36.
Halperin, Samuel, and Irvin Oder. “The United States in Search of a Policy: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Palestine.” The Review of Politics 24, no. 3 (July 1962): 336–37.
Klieman, Aaron S. “In the Public Domain: The Controversy over Partition for Palestine.” Jewish Social Studies (Spring 1980): 147–64.
Mayerberg, Samuel S. “Two Presidents and a Haberdasher—1948.” American Jewish Archives 20 (April 1968): 3–15.
Rucker, Laurent. “Moscow’s Surprise: The Soviet-Israeli Alliance of 1947–1949.” Working Paper 48, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
Slonim, Shlomo. “The 1948 American Embargo on Arms to Palestine.” Political Science Quarterly 94, no. 3 (Fall 1979): 495–513.
Wilson, Evan M. “The Palestine Papers, 1943–1947.” Journal of Palestine Studies 2, no. 4 (Summer 1973): 34–37.
BOOKS, MEMOIRS, AND PUBLISHED DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIONS
Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: Norton, 1969.
Adler, Frank. Roots in a Moving Stream. Kansas City, Mo.: The Temple, Congregation of B’nai Jehudah, 1972.
Alpern, Sara. Freda Kirchwey: A Woman of the Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
Ayers, Eben. Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben Ayers. Ed. Robert Ferrell. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
Baram, Philip J. The Department of State in the Middle East, 1919–1945. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
Bar-Zohar, Michael. Ben-Gurion: A Biography. New York: Delacorte Press, 1978.
Beir, Robert L., with Joseph, Brian. Roosevelt and the Holocaust. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2006.
Beisner, Robert L. Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Ben-Gurion, David. Israel: A Personal History. New York: Funk and Wagnall’s, 1971.
Benson, Michael T. Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.
Beschloss, Michael. Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007.
Bisgyer, Maurice. Challenge and Encounter. New York: Crown, 1976.
Bohlen, Charles E. Witness to History 1929–1969. New York: Norton, 1973.
Brands, H. W. Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918–1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
Bullock, Alan. Ernest Bevin: Foreign Secretary, 1945–1951. New York: Norton, 1983.
Celler, Emanuel. You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler. New York: John Day Company, 1953.
Clifford, Clark, with Richard Holbrooke. Counsel to the President: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1991.
Clifford, Clark M., Eugene V. Rostow, and Barbara W. Tuchman. The Palestine Question in American History. New York: Arno Press, 1978. (Contains papers given on December 28, 1976, at a joint meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society and the American Historical Association.)
Cochran, Bert. Harry Truman and the Crisis Presidency. New York: Funk and Wagnall’s, 1973.
Cohen, Michael J. Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945–1948. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982.
————. Truman and Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Cohen, Naomi. Not Free to Desist: The American Jewish Committee, 1906–1966. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972.
Crossman, Richard. Palestine Mission. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1947.
Crum, Bartley. Behind the Silken Curtain: A Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1947.
Daniels, Jonathan. The Man of Independence. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1950.
Dinnerstein, Leonard. America and the Survivors of the Holocaust. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Donovan, Robert. Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1948. New York: Norton, 1977.
Eban, Abba. An Autobiography. Glasgow: William Collins, 1977.
————. Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes. New York: Putnam, 1992.
————. Voice of Israel. New York: Horizon Press, 1957.
Elath, Eliahu. Israel and Elath: The Political Struggle for the Inclusion of Elath in the Jewish State. London: Weidenfeld, 1966.
————. Zionism at the UN: A Diary of the First Days. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976.
Elsey, George McKee. An Unplanned Life: A Memoir. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.
Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.
Fink, Reuben. America and Palestine. New York: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1944.
Feingold, Henry L. The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938–1945. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
Feis, Herbert. The Birth of Israel: The Tousled Diplomatic Bed. New York: Norton, 1969.
Forrestal, James. The Forrestal Diaries. Ed. Walter Mills. New York: Viking, 1951.
Frankfurter, Felix. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces. Recorded in talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. New York: Reynal and Company, 1960.
Friling, Tuvia. Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership, and Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust. Vol. 2. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
Gal, Alon. David Ben-Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991.
Ganin, Zvi. Truman, American Jewry, and Israel, 1945–1948. New York: Holmes and Meir, 1979.
García Granados, Jorge. The Birth of Israel: The Drama as I Saw It. New York: Knopf, 1948.
Gilbert, Martin. Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship. New York: Henry Holt, 2007.
————. Israel: A History. New York: William Morrow, 1998.
Gilead, Zerubavel, and Dorothea Krook. Gideon’s Spring: A Man and His Kibbutz. New York: Ticknow and Fields, 1985.
Goldmann, Nahum. The Autobiography of Nahum Goldmann: Sixty Years of Jewish Life. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Grose, Peter. Israel in the Mind of America. New York: Knopf, 1983.
Gruber, Ruth. Destination Palestine: The Story of the Haganah Ship Exodus 1947. New York: Current Books, 1948.
————. Inside of Time: My Journey from Alaska to Israel. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2003.
————. Witness. New York: Schocken Books, 2007.
Haber, Julius. The Odyssey of an American Zionist. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1956.
Halperin, Samuel. The Political World of American Zionism. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1961.
Hamby, Alonzo. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Hassett, William D. Off the Record with F.D.R., 1942–1945. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1958.
Hazony, Yoram. The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Hertzberg, Arthur, ed. The Zionist Idea. New York: Atheneum, 1975.
Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State. New York: Dover, 1988. (Originally published in the United States by the American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946.)
Horowitz, David. State in the Making. Translated from the Hebrew by Julian Meltzer. New York: Knopf, 1953.
Hull, Cordell. Memoirs. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
Hurewitz, J. C. The Struggle for Palestine. New York: Schocken, 1950.
Huthmacher, J. Joseph. Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism. New York: Atheneum, 1971.
Isaacs, Stephen D. Jews and American Politics. New York: Doubleday, 1974
Issacson, Walter, and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Judt, Tony. PostWar: A History of Europe Since 1945. New York: Penguin Press, 2005.
Kaplan, Robert D. The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite. New York: Free Press, 1993.
Kaufman, Menahem. An Ambiguous Partnership: Non Zionists and Zionists in America, 1939–1948. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1991.
Kenen, I. L. Israel’s Defense Line: Her Friends and Foes in Washington. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1981.
Klausner, Abraham J. A Letter to My Children from the Edge of the Holocaust. San Francisco: Holocaust Center of Northern California, 2002.
Kochavi, Arieh J. Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, and Jewish Refugees, 1945–1948. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Koestler, Arthur. Promise and Fulfillment: Palestine 1917–1949. New York: Macmillan, 1949.
Kuntzel, Matthias. Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. New York: Telos Press, 2007.
Kurzman, Dan. Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.
————. Genesis 1948: The First Arab-Israeli War. New York: Signet, 1970.
Laqueur, Walter. A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel. New York: Schocken, 1972.
Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor: The Years Alone. New York: Norton, 1972.
Lelyveld, Joseph. Omaha Blues. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Lie, Trygve. In the Cause of Peace: Seven Years with the United Nations. New York: Macmillan, 1954.
Litvinoff, Barnet. Weizmann: Last of the Patriarchs. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976.
Louis, William Roger. The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1984.
Lowdermilk, Walter Clay. Palestine: Land of Promise. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944.
Makovsky, Michael. Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007.
Mandel, Daniel. H. V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist. London: Frank Cass, 2004.
McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992.
McDonald, James. My Mission to Israel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951.
Miller, Aaron David. Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939–1949. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Miller, Merle. Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: Berkley-Putnam, 1973.
Miscamble, Wilson D. From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
————. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008.
Mosley, Leonard. Marshall: Hero for Our Times. New York: Hearst Books, 1982.
Murphy, Bruce Allen. The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection. New York: Anchor Press, 1983.
Neal, Steve. Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. New York: Citadel Press, 2002.
Neumann, Emanuel. In the Arena: An Autobiographical Memoir. New York: Herzl Press, 1976.
Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. New York: Norton, 2007.
Pawel, Ernst. The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.
Pogue, Forrest C. George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959. New York: Viking, 1987.
Proskauer, Joseph. A Segment of My Times. New York: Farrar Straus, 1950.
Raphael, Marc Lee. Abba Hillel Silver: A Profile in American Judaism. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1989.
Reinharz, Jehuda. Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
————. Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Statesman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Ro’l, Yaacov. From Encroachment to Involvement: A Documentary Study of Soviet Policy in the Middle East, 1945–1973. New York: John Wiley, 1974.
Rose, Norman. Chaim Weizmann: A Biography. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986.
Rosen, Robert N. Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. My Day. Vol. 11: The Post War Years. New York: Pharos Books, 1990.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. FDR: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945. Ed. Elliott Roosevelt. Vol. 2. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950.
Rosenman, Samuel, and Dorothy Rosenman. Presidential Style: Some Giants and a Pygmy in the White House. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
Sachar, Howard M. The History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Sacher, Abram. The Redemption of the Unwanted: The Post-Holocaust Years. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.
Saint John, Robert. Eban. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
Schechtman, Joseph B. The United States and the Jewish State Movement: The Crucial Decade, 1939–1949. New York: Herzl Press, 1966.
Sheffer, Gabriel. Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Silver, Abba Hillel. Vision and Victory: A Collection of Addresses by Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. New York: Zionist Organization of America, 1949.
Snetsinger, John. Truman, the Jewish Vote, and the Creation of Israel. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1974.
Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards. The First Cold War: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism. Levington: University of Kentucky Press, 2006.
Stark, Freye. Dust in the Lion’s Paw. London: Century Publishing, 1961.
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr. The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1943–1946. Ed. Thomas M. Campbell and George C. Herring. New York: Franklin Watts, 1975.
Stone, I. F. This Is Israel. New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948.
————. Underground to Palestine. New York: Boni and Gaer, 1946.
Sykes, Christopher. Cross Roads to Israel: Palestine from Balfour to Bevin. London: Collins, 1965.
Teveth, Shabtai. Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground, 1886–1948. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Truman, Harry S. Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910–1959. Ed. Robert H. Ferrell. New York: Norton, 1983.
————. Memoirs. Vol. 1: Years of Decisions. New York: Doubleday, 1955.
————. Memoirs. Vol. 2: Years of Trial and Hope, 1946–1952. New York: Doubleday, 1956.
————. Mr. Citizen. New York: Popular Library, 1953.
————. Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman. Ed. Robert H. Ferrell. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.
Truman, Margaret. Bess W. Truman. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
————. Harry S. Truman. New York: Morrow, 1972.
Tuchman, Barbara W. Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. New York: Ballantine Books, 1956.
Urofsky, Melvin. We Are One! Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1978.
Urquhart, Brian. Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. New York: Norton, 1993.
Vandenberg, Arthur. The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg. Ed. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
Wallace, Henry A. The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace. Ed. John Morton Blum. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Weisgal, Meyer. Meyer Weisgal…So Far. New York: Random House, 1971.
Weizmann, Chaim. Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949.
————. The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann. Vol. 1: 1898–1931. Ed. Barnet Litvinoff. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1983.
————. The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann. Vol. 2: 1931–1952. Ed. Barnet Litvinoff. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1984.
Weizmann, Vera (as told to David Tutaev). The Impossible Takes Longer: The Memoirs of Vera Weizmann. New York: Harper, 1967.
Welles, Sumner. We Need Not Fail. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948.
Williams, Francis. Ernest Bevin: Portrait of a Great Englishman. London: Hutchinson, 1952.
————. A Prime Minister Remembers: The War and Post-War Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Earl Attlee. London: Heinemann, 1961.
Wilson, Evan M. Decision on Palestine: How the U.S. Came to Recognize Israel. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1979.
Wise, Stephen. Challenging Years. London: East and West Library, 1951.
Wyman, David. The Abandonment of the Jews. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Wyman, David, and Rafael Medoff. A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust. New York: New Press, 2002.
Zaar, Isaac. Rescue and Liberation: America’s Part in the Birth of Israel. New York: Bloch Publishing, 1954.
UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
Fellman, Daniel J. “An American Friendship: A Critical Examination of the Life of Eddie Jacobson and His Relationship with President Harry S Truman.” Thesis for Ordination, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, March 2005.
Sacher, D. B. “David Niles and American Policy.” Senior honors thesis, Harvard University, 1959.