Required Reading
Arthur Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea : A Historical Analysis and Reader, (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1997), ISBN/ISSN: 0827606222
– Introduction: pp. 15-100
– Theodor Herzl: “The Jewish State” pp. 204-223
– Max Nordau: “Zionism” pp. 242-245
– Ahad Ha-am: pp.248-277
– David Ben-Gurion: “The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution” pp.605-619
– Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook “The Land of Israel” pp. 419-422
– Louis Brandeis, “The Jewish Problem and How to Solve It,” pp. 515-523.
Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s “The Iron Wall”
Shlomo Avineri’s The Making of Modern Zionism. “Ben-Gurion: The Vision and the Power” pp. 198-216.
Michael Brenner’s essay “From Zionism to Zion,” in Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century, pp. 40-61. Ed. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Recommended Readings
Michael Brenner, Zionism: A Brief History . Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2003.
– The Early History of Political Zionism pp. 3-22
– An International Nationalism: The Topography of Early Zionism pp. 25-63
Colin Shindler’s The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron. “An Army of Jews” pp. 50-109.
The Zionist Ideology, Gideon Shimoni. Brandeis University Press, 1995.
Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmpolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky. Michael Stanislawski. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.