Jews Against the Occupation

Recommended Readings and Films

History of the Conflict in Israel/Palestinian

U.S. and Global Policy Regarding Israel/Palestine

Intifada and Resistance

Racism and Inequality in Israel/Palestine

Legacy of the Holocaust and Antisemitism

Israeli-Palestinian Culture

Palestinian Memoir

History of Jews and Judaism

Sexual and Gender Politics in Judaism and Jewish Culture

Racial Politics in Judaism and Jewish Culture

Jews and Judaism on the Left

Journals on Israel/Palestine and the Middle East

Films about Israel/Palestine

 

 

History of the Conflict in Israel/Palestine


Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, ed., Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2nd ed. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1987).

 

Salman Abu-Sitta, Palestinian Right to Return: Sacred, Legal, Possible (London: Palestinian Return Center, 1999).

 

Bennis, Phyllis, Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Primer (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2007).

 

Ian Black and Benny Morris, Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services (New York: Grove Press, 1991).

 

Arie Bober, ed., The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism (New York: Doubleday, 1972).

 

Norman G. Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel/Palestine Conflict, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Verso, 2003)

 

Michael R. Fischbach, Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2003).

 

Simha Flapan, The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities (New York: Pantheon, 1987).

 

Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel's Fateful Hour, trans. Lenn Schramm, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1988).

 

Joseph Heller, The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics, and Terror, 1940-1949 (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1995).

 

David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, 2nd ed. (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003).

 

Ghada Karmi, Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine (London: Pluto Press, 2007).

 

Baruch Kimmerling, Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians (London: Verso, 2003).

 

Neville J. Mandel, The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).

 

Nureldeen Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).

 

---, Greater Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, 1967-2000, trans. Khailil Nassar (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2001).

 

--, Maximum Land and Minimum Arabs: Israel, Transfer, and Palestinians, 1949-1996, 2nd ed. (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2002).

 

Joseph Massad, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).

 

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

 

---, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians, rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).

 

---, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998 (New York: Knopf, 1999).

 

Michael Neumann, The Case Against Israel (Petrolia and Oakland, CA: CounterPunch and AK Press, 2005).

 

Akiva Orr, Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crisis (London and Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1994).

 

Ilan Pappe, Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-51 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988).

 

---, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: Oneworld Pubs., 2007).

 

---, The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1994).

 

Tanya Reinhart, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002).

 

Maxime Rodinson, Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?, trans. David Thorstad (New York: Monad Press/Pathfinder Press, 1973).

 

---, Israel and the Arabs, trans. Michael Perl (London: Harmondsworth; New York: Penguin, 1970).

 

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

 

Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine (New York: Vintage, 1979).

 

Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis (New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1986.

 

Regina S. Sharif, Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots in Western History (London: Zed Books, 1983).

 

Stephen Sizer, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994).

 

Zeev Sternhell, The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State, trans. David Maisel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).

 

Avi Shlaim, The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine, 1921-1951 rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

 

---, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2001).

 

Alan R. Taylor, The Zionist Mind: The Origins and Development of Zionist Thought (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1974).

 

Nathan Weinstock, Zionism: False Messiah, trans. and ed. Alan Adler (London: Ink Links, 1979).

 

Ebie Weizfeld, ed., The End of Zionism and the Liberation of the Jewish People (Atlanta and Windsor, ON: Clarity Press, 1989).

 

 

U.S. and Global Policy Regarding Israel/Palestine


Naseer H. Aruri, Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine (Boston: South End Press, 2003).

 

---, The Obstruction of Peace: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995).

 

Bishara Bahbah and Linda Butler, Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection (New York: St. Martin's Press; Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1986).

 

Mohammed Bamyeh, ed., South Atlantic Quarterly 102.4 (2003):  Special Issue on “Palestine America.”

 

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987).

 

Phyllis Bennis, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2005).

 

Rabbi Elmer Berger, Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978).

 

Francis A. Boyle, Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2003).

 

Stephen Bronner, Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy (Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 2005).

 

Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians, Updated Edition (1983; Boston: South End Press, 1999).

 

Beshara Doumani, ed., Academic Freedom after September 11 (New York: Zone Books, 2006).

 

Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003).

 

G. H. Jansen, Zionism, Israel and Asian Nationalism (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1971).

 

Michael E. Jansen, The United States and the Palestinian People (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1970).

 

Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, eds., Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (New York: Grove Press, 2003).

 

W. Thomas Mallison and Sally V. Mallison, The Palestine Problem in International Law and World Order (London: Longman Group, 1986).

 

Camille Mansour, Beyond Alliance: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy, trans. Jams A. Cohen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).

 

Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, The Global Political Economy of Israel (London and Stirling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002).

 

Michael P. Saba, ed., The Armageddon Network (Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1984).

 

Edward W. Said, The Palestine Question and the American Context (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1979).

 

Fuad Sha'ban, For Zion's Sake: The Judeo-Christian Tradition in American Culture (London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2005).

 

Mohammed K. Shadid, The United States and the Palestinians (London: Croom Helm, 1981).

 

Roselle Tekiner, Samir Abed-Rabbo, Norton Mezvinsky, eds., Anti-Zionism: Analytical Reflections (Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1989).

 

Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991).

 

Stephen Zunes, Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2003).

 

 

Intifada and Resistance


Ali Abunimah, One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (New York: Metropolitan Books/Holt, 2006).

 

Yassir Akawi, Gabriel Angelone, and Lisa Nessan, From Communal Strife to Global Struggle: Justice for the Palestinian People (Jerusalem: AIC, 2004).

 

George Antonius, The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1939).

 

Naseer Aruri, ed., Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (London: Pluto Press, 2001).

 

Naim Stifan Ateek, Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997).

 

Nicholas Blincoe, et al., eds, Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement (London: Verso, 2004).

 

Nathan J. Brown, Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003).

 

Roane Carey, ed., The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid (London: Verso, 2001).

 

Roane Carey et al., eds., The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (New York: The New Press, 2002).

 

Abraham Granott, The Land System in Palestine: History and Structure, trans. M. Simon (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952).

 

Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege, trans. Maxine Nunn (New York: Metropolitan/Owl Books, 2000).

 

---, Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land, ed. and trans. Rachel Leah Jones (Boston: MIT Press, 2003).

 

Yehudit Kirstein Keshet, Checkpoint Watch: Testimonies from Occupied Palestine (London: Zed Books, 2006).

 

Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).

 

Khamsin Collective, Palestine: Profile of an Occupation, Khamsin Series 14/15 (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1989).

 

Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003).

 

Zachary Lochman and Joel Beinin, eds., Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (Boston: South End Press, 1989).

 

Joseph Massad, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (New York and London: Routledge, 2006).

 

Muhammad Y. Muslih, The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).

 

Susan Nathan, The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide (New York and London: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005).

 

Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network, The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action (Jerusalem: PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, 2003).

 

Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle (London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2004).

 

Josie Sandercock et al., eds., Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement (London: Verso, 2004).

 

Rosemary Sayigh, Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (London: Zed Books, 1994).

 

Michael Sorkin, Against the Wall: Israeli's Barrier to Peace (New York: The New Press, 2005).

 

Nancy Stohlman and Laurieann Aladin, eds., Live From Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Israeli Occupation (Boston: South End Press, 2003).

 

Michel Warschawski, Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society, trans. Peter Drucker (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004).

 

 

Racism and Inequality in Israel/Palestine


Jacques Berlinerblau, Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999).

 

Lenni Brenner, The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir (London: Zed Books, 1984).

 

Sami Shalom Chetrit, The Oriental Struggle in Israel 1948-2003 [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2004).

 

Jonathan Cook, Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State (London: Pluto Press, 2006).

 

Uri Davis, Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (London: Zed, 2003).

 

Simha Flapan, Zionism and the Palestinians (London: Croon Helm; New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1979).

 

As’ad Ghanem, The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000: A Political Study (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).

 

Aziz Haidar, On the Margins: The Arab Population in the Israeli Economy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995).

 

Jada‘ Jiladi, Discord in Zion: Conflict Between Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews in Israel (London: Scorpion Publishing, 1990).

 

Sabri Jiryis, Arabs in Israel, trans. Inea Bushnaq (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976).

 

Amitava Kumar and Michael Ryan, eds., Politics and Culture 1 (2004):  Special Issue on “Edward Said Tributes.”

 

Joe Sacco, Palestine (Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2001).

 

Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1978).

 

Said and Christopher Hitchens, Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (London and New York: Verso, 1988).

 

Shlomo Swirski, Israel’s Oriental Majority (London: Zed Books, 1989).

 

Keith W. Whitelam, The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).

 

 

Legacy of the Holocaust and Antisemitism


Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press, 1963).

 

---, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in a Modern Age, ed. Ron H. Feldman (NY: Grove Press, 1978).

 

Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators: A Reappraisal (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1983).

 

Mark Chmiel, Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).

 

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, eds., The Politics of Anti-Semitism (AK Press, 2003).

 

Norman G. Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).

 

---, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Verso, 2003).

 

Sander L. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).

 

---, The Jew's Body (New York: Routledge, 1991).

 

---, Smart Jews:  The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).

 

Terri Ginsberg, Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

 

Yosef Grodzinsky, In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004).

 

Hermann Langbein, Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938-1945 (1994; New York:  Continuum, 2001).

 

Jewish Voice for Peace, Reframing Anti-Semitism: Alternative Jewish Perspectives (San Francisco: Jewish Voice for Peace, 2004).

 

Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The ‘Final Solution’ in History (New York: Pantheon, 1988).

 

Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1999).

 

Edward W. Said, The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 (New York: Random House, 1995).

 

Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: Israel Confronts the Holocaust, trans. Haim Watzman, rev. ed. (New York: Metropolitan/Owl Books, 2000).

 

Yuri Suhl, They Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe (New York: Schocken Books, 1975).

 

Enzo Traverso, The Origins of Nazi Violence, trans. Janet Lloyd (London and New York: The New Press, 2003).

 

---, Understanding Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz, trans. Peter Drucker (London and Stirling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999).

 

Idith Zertal, From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel (Berkeley, LA, London: University of California Press, 1998).

 

---, Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood, trans. Chaya Galai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

 

 

Israeli-Palestinian Culture


Ibraham Abu-Lughod et al, eds., The Landscape of Palestine: Equivocal Poetry (Birzeit: Birzeit University Publications, 1999).

 

Ammiel Alcalay, After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

 

Hamid Dabashi, ed., Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (London and New York: Verso, 2006).

 

Yerach Gover, Zionism: The Limits of Moral Discourse in Israeli Hebrew Fiction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).

 

Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).

 

Walid Khalidi, Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1976-1948 (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2004).

 

Lina Khatib, Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006).

 

Arthur Nelsen, Occupied Minds: A Journey through the Israeli Psyche (London: Pluto Press, 2006).

 

Tasha G. Oren, Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics, and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004).

 

Greg Philo and Mike Berry, Bad News From Israel (London and Stirling, VA: Pluto Press, 2004).

 

Elizabeth Poole and John E. Richardson, eds., Muslims and the News Media (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2006).

 

Nissim Rejwan, Israel in Search of Identity (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999).

 

Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman, eds., A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (London: Verso; Tel Aviv: Babel, 2003).

 

Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1998).

 

Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, 2nd ed. (London: Pluto Press, 2003).

 

Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989).

 

Muhammad Siddiq, Man is a Cause: Political Consciousness and the Fiction of Ghassan Kanafani (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984).

 

Rebecca L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg, eds., Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005).

 

Khalid A. Sulaiman, Palestine and Modern Arab Poetry (London: Zed Books, 1984).

 

Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (London: Verso, 2007).

 

Raz Yosef, Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004).

 

 

Palestinian Memoir


Fawzi El-Asmar, To Be an Arab in Israel, 2nd ed. (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978).

 

Hanan Ashrawi, This Side of Peace (New York: Touchstone, 1996).

 

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, trans. Ahdaf Soueif (New York: Anchor, 2001).

 

Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers (Tarrytown, NY: Chosen Books, 1984).

 

Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist, (New York: Vantage, 1982).

Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (London: Verso, 2004).

 

Jean Said Makdisi, Teta, Mother, and Me (London: Saqi Books, 2004).

 

Fawaz Turki, The Disinherited: Journey of a Palestinian Exile (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972).

 

Edward Said, Out of Place: A Memoir  (New York: Knopf, 1999).

 

Raja Shehadeh, Strangers in the House (New York: Penguin, 2004).

 

Raymonda Hawa Tawil, My Home, My Prison (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979).

 

Fadwa Tuqan, Mountainous Journey - A Poet's Autobiography (Graywolf Press, 1990).

 

 

History of Jews and Judaism


Elmer Berger, A Partisan History of Judaism (New York: Devin-Adair, 1951).

Kevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria (New York: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1999).

Mark R. Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

Boas Evron, Jewish State or Israeli Nation? (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995).

 

Ilan Halevi, A History of the Jews: Ancient and Modern, trans. A. M. Berrett (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987).

Maxime Rodinson, Cult, Ghetto, and State: The Persistence of the Jewish Question, trans. Jon Rothschild (London: Al Saqi Books, 1983).

Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (London & Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1994).

 

 

Sexual and Gender Politics in Judaism and Jewish Culture


Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin, eds., Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation:  Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (New York: Berghahn Books, 2002).

 

Evelyn Torton Beck, ed., Nice Jewish Girls:  A Lesbian Anthology, revised and updated ed. (Boston:  Beacon Press, 1989).

 

Sherna Berger Gluck, An American Feminist in Palestine: The IntifadaYears (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994).

 

Daniel Boyarin, Unheroic Conduct:  The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

 

Daniel Boyarin et al., eds., Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).

 

Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith, Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (Brooklyn: Long Haul Press, 1984).

 

Susannah Heschel, ed., On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader, 2nd ed. (1983; New York: Schocken, 1995).

 

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence, and Resistance (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1992).

 

Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz, eds., The Tribe of Dina (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986).

 

Irena Klepfisz, Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes (Portland:  Eighth Mountain Press, 1990).

 

Tracy Moore, ed., Lesbiót: Israeli Lesbians Talk about Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and their Lives (London: Cassell Academic, 1999).

 

Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt, eds., Judaism Since Gender (New York and London: Routledge, 1997).

Nawal el Sa'dawi, The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, trans. and ed. Sherif Hetata (Boston: Beacon Press, 1982).  

David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, eds., Queer Jews (New York: Routledge, 2002).

 

 

Racial Politics in Judaism and Jewish Culture


Katya Gibel Azoulay, Black, Jewish, and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity (Durham:  Duke University Press, 1997).

 

Yosef A. Al Ben-Jochanan, We the Black Jews:  Witness to the "White Jewish Race" Myth, vols. I and II (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1993).

 

Ken Blady, Jewish Communities in Exotic Places (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2000).

 

Jonathan and Daniel Boyarin, eds., Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

 

Marla Brettschneider, ed., The Narrow Bridge: Jewish Views on Multiculturalism, (New Brunswick:  Rutgers University Press, 1996).

 

Karen Brodkin, How Jews Became White Folks & What That Says About Race in America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998).

 

David Novack, The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism: An Historical and Constructive Study of the Noahide Laws (NY and Toronto: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983).

 

Victor Perera, The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey (New York: Knopf, 1995).

 

Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America, 2nd ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989).

 

 

Jews and Judaism on the Left


Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew:  Paul and the Politics of Identity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).

 

Mark H. Ellis, Israel and Palestine−Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002).

 

Seth Farber, ed., Rabbis, Prophets, and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2005).

 

Nancy L. Green, ed., Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

 

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, ed. Susannah Heschel (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996).