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Looking for a good book on Zionism?
Let's see. Zionism is either the national liberation movement of the Jews, so
that like all other nations they could return to their homeland in Israel...or,
if you believe the United Nations, it's the cause of all the world's problems
including the common cold. Here at the Jewish Book Mall, we're quite sure it's
the first definition.
Zionism began with Abraham, who left everything familiar in comfortable
Mesopotamia and went to a land he did not know. How curious it is that our
tradition makes no claim that we were the original inhabitants of the Land of
Israel - but then again, this is the same honest tradition that insists that we
recall our degradation as slaves in Egypt.
Modern Zionism began with Theodor Herzl, an assimilated Jewish journalist in
Vienna. The Jews of Europe were electrified by his platform of re-creating a
Jewish homeland in Israel. (Things were so bad for the Jews of Europe that at
one point he even considered accepting Uganda as an alternate safe haven for
Jews from pogroms.)
Of course, Zionism did not disappear for 1,800 years in between the Roman
conquest of Israel and Herzl. Jews everywhere prayed, as they do now, for the
return to Zion and the end of the exile. Jews, wherever they are, pray toward
Jerusalem.
The books here are histories of Zionism and Zionists, both before and after
Israel's re-creation in 1948. For more books on Israel, see our
Israel page.
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time |
A Psychohistory of Zionism |
Elvis in Jerusalem: Post Zionism and the Americanization of
Israel |
The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between
the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine |
Zionism and the Creation of a New Society (Tauber Institute for
the Study of European Jewry Series) |
Israel at the Crossroads: Fifty Years and Counting |
Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948: A Study of Ideology |
Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict,
1881-1999 |
Agents of Empire: Anglo-Zionist Intelligence Operations 1915-1919
Brigadier Walter Gribbon, Aaron Aaronsohn and the Nili Ring |
My Life as a Radical Jewish Woman: Memoirs of a Zionist Feminist
in Poland |
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader |
Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948 |
Zionism and Religion (The Tauber Institute for the Study of
European Jewry Series, 30) |
The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and
Palestine, 1921-1951 |
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann |
Daniel Deronda |
Tidings from Zion: Helen Bentwich's Letters from Jerusalem
1919-1931 |
Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky |
Daughter of My People: Henrietta Szold and Hadassah |
Henrietta Szold: A Documentation in Photos and Text |
The Chase is the Game: The Journeys of an American-Israeli
Pioneer |
American Women Zionists: Hadassah in Israel's Formative
Years |
Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism
from Nordau to Jabotinsky |
Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl |
Old New Land |
Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism (Jewish Literature
and Culture) |
Herzl the King: A Novel About the Founder of Modern Israel |
The Jewish State |
Theodor Herzl: Architect of a Nation |
Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism |
The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation |
American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust |
Dori: The Life and Times of Theodor Herzl in Budapest,
1860-1878 |
The Imaginary Voyage: With Theodor Herzl in Israel |
We Are One!: American Jewry and Israel |
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The Jews in Their Land |
David Ben-Gurion, the State of Israel, and the Arab World,
1949-1956 |
Ben-Gurion |
Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust |
David Ben Gurion and the American Alignment for a Jewish State
(Modern Jewish Experience) |
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The Birth of Israel, 1945-1949: Ben-Gurion and His Critics |
A History of Zionism |
Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the
Mandate Era |
Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'Am and the Origins of Zionism |
Gentile Zionists: Study in Anglo-Zionist Diplomacy
1929-1939 |
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