Marking the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917, this collection focuses on the historic legacies of the document, as well as its contemporary implications in both Israeli society and the international landscape.
The Balfour Declaration: 100 Years
Syllabus A History of Modern Israel
Bruce Thompson, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bruce Thompson, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Our course aims to illuminate both sides of this story: the amazing achievements of this new state, and its frustrating failures to resolve basic conflicts with its neighbors and persistent…
University of Southampton Special Collections
Special collections include one of the largest Jewish archives in Western Europe, including the Parkes Library on Jewish/non-Jewish relations
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Jonathan Schneer
Jonathan Schneer
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting…
Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present, Second Edition
Itamar Rabinovich, Ambassador; Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University
Itamar Rabinovich, Ambassador; Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University
An anthology of the most important documents on the domestic and foreign policy of the modern state of Israel, in relation to the rest of the Middle East This timely…
The Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916
The Sykes–Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreement between Great Britain and France. The agreement allocated to Britain control of areas roughly comprising the coastal strip between…
Syllabus Geopolitical Background Reading on the Balfour Declaration
David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Henry Holt & Co, 2001). Elie Bedourie, In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth:…
"100 years on, the Balfour Declaration and the Great War", by David Reynolds
David Reynolds
David Reynolds
"100 years on, the Balfour Declaration and the Great War" by David Reynolds Published in NewStatesman, November 11, 2017 A century ago Britain published the Balfour Declaration, hailed today as…
"The Balfour Declaration Was More than the Promise of One Nation" by Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer
"The Balfour Declaration Was More than the Promise of One Nation" by Martin Kramer Published in Mosaic, June 28, 2017 By affirming the right of any Jew to call Palestine…
"How Gentile Zionism Affected the Statesmen Behind the Balfour Declaration" by Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush, Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the State University of New York at Binghamton
Allan Arkush, Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the State University of New York at Binghamton
How Gentile Zionism Affected the Statesmen Behind the Balfour Declaration Allan Arkush Published in Mosaic, June 19, 2017 "Some of them viewed things in a more inspiring light than that…
"How the Balfour Declaration Became Part of International Law" by Nicholas Rostow
Nicholas Rostow
Nicholas Rostow
"How the Balfour Declaration Became Part of International Law" Nicholas Rostow Published in Mosaic, June 12, 2017 ...And how it thereby helped to secure the legal foundations of the state…
"Jabotinsky's Role, and the Jewish Legion's, in Securing the Balfour Declaration" by Colin Shindler
Colin Shindler, Pears Senior Research Fellow in Israel Studies, SOAS University of London
Colin Shindler, Pears Senior Research Fellow in Israel Studies, SOAS University of London
Jabotinsky's Role, and the Jewish Legion's, in Securing the Balfour Declaration Colin Shindler Published in Mosaic, June 26, 2017 The Jewish Legion was not just a military force but an…
"The Forgotten Truth about the Balfour Declaration" by Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer
The Forgotten Truth about the Balfour Declaration, Martin Kramer Published in Mosaic, June 5, 2017 For 100 years the British statement, which inaugurated Zionism’s legitimation in the eyes of the world,…
Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Statesman, by Jehuda Reinharz
Jehuda Reinharz, President Emeritus and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History, Brandeis University
Jehuda Reinharz, President Emeritus and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History, Brandeis University
This massively researched, deftly written narrative follows Weizmann's life from the beginning of the First World War through some of his greatest triumphs--the Balfour Declaration, the founding of the Hebrew…
Video Looking Back, Looking Forward: 100 Years of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Abdel Monem Said Aly, Chairman of the Board, CEO, and Director of the Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Cairo; Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies; Asher Susser, Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University; Crown Center for Israel Studies; George Bisharat; Martin Kramer; Nadim Shehadi; Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics, Brandeis University; Yehuda Reinharz; Ziad Asali
Abdel Monem Said Aly, Chairman of the Board, CEO, and Director of the Regional Center for Strategic Studies in Cairo; Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies; Asher Susser, Professor of History and Senior Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University; Crown Center for Israel Studies; George Bisharat; Martin Kramer; Nadim Shehadi; Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics, Brandeis University; Yehuda Reinharz; Ziad Asali
One hundred years after the Balfour Declaration, what are the futures of Israel and Palestine? Join top scholars and public figures as they debate what kind of states should Israelis…
Syllabus Palestinian History and State Formation (2017)
Jonathan Gribetz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and in the Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University
Jonathan Gribetz, Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and in the Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University
Essential Readings (Primary Sources) Hussein-McMahon correspondence (1915) Balfour Declaration (1917) in The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict: Palestine Royal Commission Report (1937) The Arab Office…
Video Reflections on the Balfour Declaration
Ilan Troen, Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University; Leon Wieseltier, Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution; Contributing Editor and Critic at The Atlantic
Ilan Troen, Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, Brandeis University; Leon Wieseltier, Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution; Contributing Editor and Critic at The Atlantic
Leon Wieseltier delivered the keynote address "Reflections on the Balfour Declaration" on June 12, 2017 at the 33rd annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, which the Schusterman Center for…
The Balfour Declaration - original document
Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour
Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you. on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of…
The Balfour Declaration
Leonard Stein
Leonard Stein
Leonard Stein's 1961 book was for decades the leading book on the Balfour Declaration. http://books.google.com/books?id=UrfWjwEACAAJ&dq=editions:DZ95HDjyLKoC&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj06tLKuqfWAhUFxoMKHYnABuAQ6AEITzAI Access e-book at http//quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;idno=heb00942.0001.001 Author: Stein, Leonard 1887-1973 Publisher: Jerusalem : Magnes Press ; London : Jewish Chronicle…
British White Paper of 1939
White papers were official reports by a British Government commission, usually issued following government investigative commissions. Issued on May 17, 1939, it rejected the Peel Commission's partition plan on the grounds that…
British White Paper of June 1922
White papers were official reports by a British Government commission, usually issued following government investigative commissions. The first official manifesto interpreting the Balfour Declaration was issued on June 3, 1922,…
The Balfour Declaration and Its Maker: A Reassessment
Jehuda Reinharz, President Emeritus and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History, Brandeis University
Jehuda Reinharz, President Emeritus and Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History, Brandeis University
Jehuda Reinharz The Journal of Modern History 1992 64:3, 455-499 http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/244512
The British Mandate for Palestine
Text of the British Mandate for Palestine. This document established the legal structure for British rule over Palestine, and includes the promises of Balfour. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/palmanda.asp
The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine
Ronald Sanders
Ronald Sanders
www.amazon.com/High-Walls-Jerusalem-Declaration-Palestine/dp/0030539714
The Lodge-Fish Resolution
The Lodge-Fish Resolution was a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress of the United States that endorsed the British Mandate for Palestine. It was introduced in June 1922 by Democrat Hamilton Fish III, a Republican…
The question of Palestine, 1914-1918: British-Jewish-Arab relations
Isaiah Friedman
Isaiah Friedman
This brilliant and groundbreaking study of international relations in the Middle East during World War I traces the complex course of events that led to the Balfour Declaration in 1917.…