Resources on Modern Jewish History and Zionism:
The Case for
The Course of Modern Jewish History: The Classic History of the Jewish People from the
Eighteenth Century to the Present Day by Howard M. Sachar
(Random House) $24
SC
A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson (HarperPerennial) $17 SC
History of the Jews in Modern Times by Lloyd Gartner (
History of Zionism by Walter Laqueur (Schocken) $16.95 SC
The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr
and Jehuda Reinharz (
The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul by Yoram Hazony (Basic Books) $18 SC
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The Seventh Million : The
Israelis and the Holocaust by Tom Segev (Henry Holt)
$18 SC
A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood by Raymond P. Scheindlin (
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the
Modern
Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five
Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler (HarperCollins) $14.95
The Yom Kippur
War by the Insight Team of the Sunday Times (Simon and Schuster) $14 SC
The Zionist Idea by Arthur Hertzberg (JPS) $28.95 SC