Further Reading

Classical Zionism

Adelman, J. The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State, London and New York: Routledge, 2008.

Bar-On, M. (ed.) Never-Ending Conflict: Israeli Military History, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.

Halpern, B. and Reinharz, J. Zionism and the Creation of a New Society, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Kaplan, E. and Penslar, D. The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.

Laqueur, W. A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel, Jerusalem: Schocken, 2003.

Penslar, D. Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective, London and New York: Routledge, 2006.

Shapira, A. Israel: A History, Boston: Brandeis University Press, 2012.

Shimoni, G. The Zionist Ideology, Boston: Brandeis University Press, 1995.

Wistrich, R. and Ohana, D. The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory and Trauma, London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Post-Zionism

Alam, M. S. Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Ben-Asher, H. The Zionist Illusion, New York: iUniverse.com, 2010.

Beinart, P. The Crisis of Zionism, New York: Times Books, 2012

Butler, J. Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Ellis, M. H. Judaism Does Not Equal Israel: The Rebirth of the Jewish Prophetic, New York: New Press, 2009.

Feldt, J. The Israeli Memory Struggle: History and Identity in the Age of Globalisation, Copenhagen: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007.

Ghazi-Boullion, A. Understanding the Middle East Peace Process: Israeli Academia and the Struggle for Identity, London and New York: Routledge, 2013.

Hilal, J. and Pappe, I. (ed.) Across the Wall: Narratives of Israeli–Palestinian History, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2010.

Hilliard, C. Does Israel Have a Future? The Case for a Post-Zionist State, Washington: Potomac Books, 2009.

Isacoff, J. B. Writing the Arab–Israeli Conflict: Pragmatism and Historical Enquiry, New York: Lexington Books, 2006.

Kovel, J. Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, London: Pluto, 2007.

Lentin, R. Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.

Lowenstein, A. and Moor, A. After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine, London: Saqi Books, 2012.

Masalha, N. The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Postcolonialism in Palestine–Israel, London: Zed Books, 2007.

Pappe, I. (ed.) The Israel/Palestine Question: A Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

Podeh, E. The Arab–Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948–2000, New York: Information Age Publishing, 2005.

Prior, M. Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Enquiry, London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Ram, U. The Globalisation of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.

Roberts, J. Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe, New York: Dundurn, 2013.

Rogan, E. and Shlaim, A. (ed.) The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Rotberg, R. (ed.) Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History’s Double Helix, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Sand, S. The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth, London: Semiotext(e), 2011.

Shafir, G. and Peled, Y. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Shatz, A. Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing About Zionism and Israel, New York; Nation Books, 2004.

Silberstein, L. J. The Post-Zionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Slyomovics, S. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Yiftachel, O. Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel-Palestine, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Zerubavel, Y. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Feminism and Gender in Israel

Abdo, N. Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship, London: Zed Books, 2011.

Abdo, N. and Lentin, R. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation, London: Berghahn Press, 2002.

Azmon, Y. and Izraeli, D. N. Women in Israel, New York: Transaction Publishers, 1993.

Bernstein, D. S. Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel, Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1992.

Dworkin, A. Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Women’s Liberation, New York: Free Press, 2000.

Haberman, B. D. Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism: Blood and Ink, New York: Lexington Books, 2012.

Halperin-Kaddari, R. Women in Israel: A State of Their Own, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Kark, R. (ed.) Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics and Culture, Brandeis: University of Brandeis Press, 2008.

Katz, S. Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism, Miami, FL: University of Florida Press, 2003.

Mayer, T. Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

Misra, K. and Rich, M. Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives, Boston: Brandeis University Press, 2008.

Naveh, H. Gender and Israeli Society: Women’s Time, New York: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.

Rom, M. and Benjamin, O. Feminism, Family and Identity in Israel: Women’s Marital Names, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Sharoni, S. Gender and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.

Swirski, B. Calling the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel, New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.

Holocaust Memory

Achcar, G. The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab–Israeli War of Narratives, London: Saqi Books, 2011.

Cohen, B. Israeli Holocaust Research: Birth and Evolution, London and New York: Routledge, 2012.

Fox, T. Inherited Memories: Israeli Children of Holocaust Survivors, New York: Cassel Academics, 1999.

Hilberg, R. The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian, New York: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.

Safdie, M. Yad Vashem: Moshe Safdie—The Architecture of Memory, Berlin: Lars Müller Publications, 2006.

Stauber, R. The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s: Ideology and Memory, New York: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007.

Arab Jews and Mizrachim

Alcalay, A. After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

Bashkin, O. New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Shabi, R. We Look Like The Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews From Arab Lands, New York: Walker and Company, 2008.

Somekh, S. Baghdad Yesterday, The Making of an Arab Jew, New York: Ibis, 2007.

Culture in Israel

Barak-Erez, D. Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.

Fuhrer, R. Israeli Painting: From Post-Impressionism to Post-Zionism, New York: The Overlook Press, 1998.

Kahn, S. M. Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

Katriel, T. Performing the Past: A Study of Israeli Settlement Museums, London and New York: Routledge, 1997.

Mautner, M. Law and the Culture of Israel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Regev, M. and Seroussi, E. Popular Music and National Culture in Israel, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.

Stein, R. L. and Swedenberg, T. (ed) Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

Talmon, M. and Peleg, Y. Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011.

Neo-Zionism

Gelber, Y. Nation and History: Israeli Historiography Between Zionism and Post-Zionism, New York: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.

Hazony, D., Hazony, Y., and Oren, M. B. (ed.) New Essays on Zionism, Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2007.

Hazony, Y. The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul, New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Morris, B. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001, New York: Vintage, 2001.

Mazur, Y. Zionism, Post-Zionism and the Arab Problem: A Compendium of Opinions About the Jewish State, New York: West Bow Press, 2012.