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Ahad Ha-am. Selected Essays of Ahad Ha-am. NY: Atheneum, 1970.

Ahad Ha-am. Ten Essays on Zionism and Judaism. London: Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1922.

Amichai, Yehuda. Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems. New York: Sheep Meadow, 1992.

Bard, Mitchell and Schwartz. 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About Israel. NJ. Aronson, 2003.

Bard, Mitchell G. The Founding of the State of Israel. CA: Greenhaven Press, 2003.

Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis on Zionism. Washington, D.C.: ZOA, 1942.

Bayme, Steven. Jewish Arguments and Counterarguments. N.J.: KTAV, 2002.

Bickerton & Klausner. A Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2005.

Bregman, Ahron. A History of Israel. Palgrave, Macmillan, 2002.

Brown, Michael. The Israeli-American Connection. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1996.

Chesler, Phyllis. The New Anti-Semitism. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Collins, Larry and Dominique Lapierre. O Jerusalem. New York: Simon & Shuster. 1972.

Dershowitz, Alan. What Israel Means to Me: by 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists. New York: Wiley, 2006.

The Case for Israel. New York: Wiley, 2004.

Dowty, Alan. Critical Issues in Israel Society. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.

Dowty, Alan. The Jewish State. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.

Gal, Allon. Envisioning Israel. Detroit, MI: Magness Press, 1996.

Gordis, Daniel. Home to Stay: One American Family’s Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in Contemporary Israel. Three Rivers Press, 2003.

Gold, Dor. The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publisingin Company, 2007.

Hazony, Yoram. The Jewish State: the Struggle for Israel’s Soul. NY: Basic Books, 2000.

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Fate of Zionism. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003.

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea. NY: Atheneum, 1969.

Herzl, Theodor. Old-New Land. NY: Block Publishing Co., 1941.

Herzl, Theodor. Zionist Writings. NY: Herzl Press, 1973.

Hoffman, Lawrence A. The Land of Israel: Jewish Perspectives. Nora Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 1986.

Horovitz, David. Still Life with Bombers. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Jacob, Walter. Israel and the Diaspora in Jewish Law. Pittsburgh,: Rodef Shalom Press, 1997.

Kushner, Tony & Alisa Solomon, Eds. Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. NY: Grove Press, 2003.

Lacquer, Walter & Barry Rubin. The Israel-Arab Reader. NY: Penguin, 2001.

Lozowick, Yaacov. Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel’s Wars. Doubleday, 2003.

Michner, James A. The Source. Fawcett. 1965.

Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. MA: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Natanyahu, Benjamin. A Place Among the Nations: Israel and the World. Bantam Books, 2000.

Mort, Jo-Ann and Gary Brenner, Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today’s Israel, Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press, 2003.

Neusner, Jacob. Who, Where and What is “Israel”? Lanham: University Press, 1989.

Nordau, Max. Max Nordau to His People. NY: Scopus Publishing Co., Inc., 1941.

Oz, Amos. A Tale of Love and Darkness. Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.

Reinharz, Shulamit. American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise. Waltham: Brandeis Press, 2005.

Rose, Jacqueline. The Question of Zion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Rosenthal, Donna. The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land. NY: Free Press, 2003.

Rosenthal, Steven T. Irreconcilable Differences? The Waning of the American Love Affair with Israel. Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 2001.

Ross, Dennis. The Missing Peace. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

Salkin, Jeffrey K. A Dream of Zion: American Jews Reflect on Why Israel Matters to Them. Woodskock: Jewish Lights Publishing. 2007.

Saxe & Chazan. Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity. Dartmouth: Brandeis University Press. 2008.

Segev, Tom. Elvis in Jerusalem. NY: Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Segev, Tom. The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent. NY: Norton: 2002.

Shatz, Adam. Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel. Avalon Publishing Group, 2004.

Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Silberstein, Laurence J. The Postzionism Debates. NY: Routledge, 1999.

Soloveitchik, Joseph. Fate and Destiny: From Holocaust to the State of Israel. KTAV, 2000.

Stein, Leslie, The Hope Fulfilled: the Rise of Modern Israel. NY: Greenwood, 2003.

Uris, Leon. Exodus. NY: Bantam. 1958.

Waskow, Arthur. These Holy Sparks. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983.

Wisse, Ruth R. If I am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews. NY: Free Press, 1992.

Wouk, Herman. The Glory. Little Brown & Company. 1994

Wouk, Herman. The Hope. Little Brown & Company. 1993

Zipperstein, Steven and Ernest Frerichs. Zionism, Liberalism and the Future of the Jewish State. The Dorot Foundation, 2000.

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