Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
Editor: Paul Halsall
This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below, along with added texts and web site indicators. For more contextual
information, for instance about Western imperialism, the Islamic world, or the history of
a given period, check out these web sites.
For help in research, homework, and so forth see
Notes: |
In addition to direct links to documents, links are made to a
number of other web resources. |
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Link to a secondary article, review or discussion on a given
topic. |
MEGA
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Link to one of the megasites which track web
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Link to a website focused on a specific issue.. These are not
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Contents
- The People of Israel
- Pre-Israelite Canaan/Palestine/Syria
- The Bible as a Source
- Ethnogenesis
- Moses and Monotheism
- Conquest of the Land
- The National Monarchy
- Mythological Foundations
- The Emergence of Judaism
- General
- Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel
- The First Century CE Context
- The Qumran Sect
- Jews in the Diaspora
- Diaspora Religious Developments
- The Conflict with Rome
- Triumph of Rabbinic Judaism
- Modern Perspectives on Ancient Israel
- The Jewish Middle Ages
- General
- Jewish Communities and Individuals in Islam
- Jewish Communities and Individuals in Christendom
- Jews and the State in Christendom
- Jewish Communities Outside Islam and Christendom
- Jewish Intellectual and Religious Life
- Christian Anti-Semitism
- Early Modern Jewish Life
- Jewish Life Since the
Enlightenment
- The Enlightenment and the Jews
- The Jewish Enlightenment [The Haskalah]
- Alternate Jewish Reactions to Modernity
- The History of the Ashkenazi in Eastern Europe
- The History of the Sephardic Communities
- Jewish Life in Western Europe
- The New World Diaspora
- Modern Jewish Religious Thought
- The Impact of Secular Jews on ModernThought
- Jews and the Political Left
- Modern AntiSemitism
- The Shoah
- Zionism
- The State of Israel
- Gender and Judaism
- Further Resources on Jewish
History
The People of Israel
Pre-Israelite Canaan/Palestine/Syria
The Bible as a Source
Ethnogenesis
- 2ND Who Where the
Hebrews? [At Infidels.org][Modern Account]
Has useful maps
- 2ND The Hebrews [Modern Account][At
WSU]
- The "Children of Israel"
- The "Hebrews"/'Apiru/Habiru
- Later Stories
-
The Gezer Calendar c.925
BCE [At K.C. Hanson's website]
The oldest example of written Hebrew
Moses and Monotheism
Conquest of the Land (1250-1000 BCE?)
The National Monarchy (c.1020-586 BCE)
- Problems with Philistines: 1-2 Samuel
- Saul (c.1020-1000 BCE), 1 Samuel 8 [At Bible Gateway]
- David (1000-961 BCE)
- Solomon (961-922 BCE)
- Israel and Judah (922-586 BCE)
- The Exile (587-538 BCE)
- The Prophets (750-550 BCE)
- Amos (8th Cent. BCE): Book of Amos [At this Site]
The first of the prophets to write.
- Jeremiah (526-586 BCE), Jeremiah 7-8, 23, 31.[At Bible Gateway]
The notion of a "new covenant".
- Second Isaiah (c.550 )[from Isaiah 40 on]
[At Bible Gateway]
Mythological Foundations
The Emergence of
Judaism
General
Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel
- Reforms By Hezekiah (r. 715-687 BCE): 2 Chronicles 30:1
The enforcement of Monotheism.
See 2ND Oded Borowksi:
Hezekiah's Reforms and
the Revolt against Assyria [At TFB, Modern Account]
- Discovery of Deuteronomy (c.621 BCE):
2 Kings 18:4, 22
- The Restoration of the Temple (c 520-515 BCE):
Ezra 1-2,
6:3-5,
Haggai 1-2
- Ezra,
excerpts [At Then Again]
Nehemiah (gov. c.445-c.433) and Ezra (5th Cent. BCE) define the Community
- Editing of the Bible
-
Josephus (37 CE - after 93 CE): Against Apion 1:37-41
First mention of a five-book Torah.
- The Invention of the Synagogue
- Samaritans
- The Macabbees and After
- The Revolt (175-135 BCE)
- I
Macabbees
longer
selection -->
, written c. 100 BCE [At Then Again]
- Hasmonean Rule (134-64 BCE)
- Conquest By Pompey 63 BCE
The First Century CE Context
The Qumran Sect
Jews in the Diaspora
Diaspora Religious Developments
The Conflict with Rome
Triumph of Rabbinic Judaism
Modern Perspectives on Ancient Israel
The Jewish Middle
Ages
General
Jewish Communities and Individuals in Islam
Jewish Communities and Individuals in Christendom
- Rashi (1040-1105): Communal
Affairs in Troyes, c.1100 [At this Site]
-
Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173): The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Critical Text, Translation and Commentary by Marcus Nathan Adler.
- Jewish Ethical Wills (12th and 14th Centuries) [At this Site]
- Converts to
Judaism: France and Germany, trans. Elka Klein
- Royal Grants to the
Jewish Community of Barcelona, 1241-1271, trans. Elka Klein
- A Rabbinic Responsum: The
Shabbat Goy
- Gerald of Wales: Two Cistercian
Monks turn Jews, before 1200
- Barcelona Jewish Court Documents: A Daughter's Inheritance,
1293, trans. Elka Klein
- Barcelona Jewish Court Documents: A Jewish Widow and her
Daughter, 1261-1262, trans. Elka Klein
- Reciting the
Grace after Meals: The Status of Jewish Women, from Berakhot, chap. 7, trans.
Elka Klein
- Jewish Community of Barcelona: The Book of Document
Forms, 13th century, trans. Elka Klein
- Inventaire des bijoux
provenant des Juifs de Sauve (Gard), reçus par le délégué de l'évêque, 4 octobre
1307, in Latin [At Livre des sources médiévales]
- Formule du serment qui était
exigé des Juifs avant d'être admis à
l'exercice d'une charge quelconque dans la ville de Narbonne, XIIIe siècle, In
Occitan, [At Livre des sources médiévales]
- The Black Death and the Jews 1348-1349 CE
[At this Site]
Contains: The Confession of Agimet of Geneva, , October 20, 1349; Jacob von
Königshofen (1346-1420); Chonicle; The Epitaph of Asher aben Turiel,
Toledo, Spain, 1349.
- Ordinance
of the Jews of the Crown of Aragon, 1354 CE
This ordinance or takkanah was the product of an increased sense of Jewish
vulnerability in the years after the Black Death (1348).
- Synod of
Castilian Jews, 1432
Ordinances from assembly of the Jews of the kingdom of Castile at Valladolid in
1432.
-
2ND Yirmiyahu Yovel: Converso Dualities in the
First Generation: The Cancioneros, Jewish Social Studies Volume 4, Number 3
- Relations between Christians and Jews
Jews and the State in Christendom
- Legislation
Affecting the Jews, 300 to 800 CE [At this Site]
Index to Roman, Western and canonical laws
- Jews and the Later Roman Law 315-531 CE [At this
Site]
Laws by Constantine the Great, Constantius (337-361), Theodosius II (408-410), and
Justinian (527-565).
- Julian and the Jews, 361-363 CE [At this Site]
From Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History written about 443-450 CE
- The Jews of Spain and the Visigothic Code, 654-681
CE [At this Site]
- Charlemagne: Capitulary
for the Jews, 814
- From the Dialogue
of the Exchequer: On Usury, c.1170
- Henry II of England: Concerning
Loans From The Jews
- The Expulsion of the Jews from France, 1182 CE
[At this Site]
Account by Rigord from the Gesta Philippi Augusti.
- Richard I of England: Charter by
Which Many Liberties are Granted and Confirmed to the Jews, 22 March, 1190
- English Jewry is Organised: The Ordinances of the Jews,
1194
- Appointment of
an Archpriest of the Jews in England, July 1199 King John of England and the Jews: Charters, c.1201
- St. Louis and the Jews of France, before 1270 CE
[At this Site]
Account by Joinville.
- The Charter of the Jews of the Duchy of Austria July 1, 1244 CE [At this Site]
- Jews and Christians in
Teruel: The Fuero of Teruel, 1176 CE
Excerpts from the Fuero, or urban ordinance.
- The Siete Partidas: Concerning Jews, 1265
[At this Site]
- An Oath Taken by Jews Frankfort on the Main,
about 1392 CE [At this Site]
- The Expulsion from Spain, 1492 CE [At this
Site]
Account by an Italian Jew.
Jews and Economic Activity
Three facts predominate when considering the important role of Jews in the Medieval
economy. In most places and times, medieval Jews were legally unable to participate in
agriculture, the economic activity of the vast majority of both Christian and Muslim
populations. There is a lot of evidence that scattered Jewish communities kept in contact
with each other. Finally, although credit was essential to economic activity, lending
money on interest (usury) was forbidden by Muslim and Christian law [although there were,
in practice, many Christian money-lenders]. (Jewish law also forbids usury within the
Jewish community, but permits loans to those outside).
The result of these situations was that Jewish economic activity had to focus on
professional skills, trading, or credit provision.
- Fourth Council of Toledo: On
the Keeping of Slaves, 633
- Pope Innocent III: The
Keeping of Slaves by the Jews, 1204
- Accounts of the Routes
of the Jewish Merchants to the East, 847
King Louis the Child of Germany: An Inquiry into the Tolls of
Raffelstettin, c. 905
Information on Jewish merchants in Eastern Europe.
- Bishop of Speyer: Grant
of Lands & Privileges to the Jews, 1084
- Jocelin de Brakelond: Concerning
Loans to the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, 1173
- Note of a Double
Loan Arising from a Tax, 1203
- Pope Innocent III: Protest to Philip
Augustus of France Against Royal Protection of Jewish Money-Lenders, 1204
- Matthew of Paris: The
Usury of the Cahorsins, 1235
Cahorsins, along with Lombards, were the Christian groups most associated with
money-lending in the middle ages.
- Jewish
Views of Royal Monetary Policy in Aragon, 13th Century, trans. Elka Klein.
Jewish Communities Outside Islam and Christendom
- Khazaria
- China
- India
- Africa
Jewish Cultures
Jewish Intellectual and Religious Life
- Toledoth
Yeshu A Sixth Century Jewish (negative) account of Jesus. [At UPenn]
See also the
Jewish Views
of Jesus Homepage for more texts.
-
Sepher Yetzirah [or Sefer Yatzira], translated from the Hebrew by Wm. Wynn Westcott, [At Wolf's Den]
The Sepher Yetzirah is one of the most famous of the ancient Qabalistic texts. It was
first put into writing around 200 C.E. Westcott's Translation was first published in 1887
- Judah Ha-Levi (ca 1075-1141): The Kuzari, also known as The
Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith (Kitab al Khazari).
The entire first book of the Kuzari, a philosophical treatise written by the
Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet, Judah Ha-Levi. It is written in the form of a
dialogue, purportedly between the king of the Khazars and the representatives of various
belief systems, culminating with a rabbi.
- Maimonides: The Thirteen
Principles of Judaism [At this Site]
- Maimonides: The 613
Mitzvot [At this Site]
- Maimonides: The
Laws and Basic Principles of the Torah [At this Site]
- Maimonides: The Laws
Concerning Mashiach [At this Site]
Chapters 11 & 12 of Hilchos Melachim from the Mishneh Torah of the Rambam
- Maimonides: Oath of
Maimonides and in
Spanish [At Internet Archive, from einstein.com.ar]
- The Hypertext Halacha, [At Project
Torah.org]
A translation of the Shulchan Aruch and Mishna Berurah. An excellent source
for the details of Jewish religious law.
Christian Anti-Semitism
- General
- Byzantium
- Latin Christian
- Prayers for
Making a Synagogue into a Church, in Latin. [At this Site]
From the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae
- Fourth Council of Toledo: On
the Keeping of Slaves, 633
- Agobard of Lyon: On
the Insolence of the Jews To Louis the Pious, trans. William L. North, 826/827
- Agobard of Lyon: On
the Baptism of Slaves Belonging to Jews (to Adalard, Wala, and Helisachar), trans.
William L. North
- Ralph Glaber: The Year
1000 AD [At this Site]
from the Miracles de Saint-Benoit, (d.c. 1044) - discusses early 11th century
anti-semitism.
- Soloman bar Samson: The
Crusaders in Mainz, 1096 [At this Site]
written in mid 12th century
- Gerald of Wales: Barnacle Geese
Should Convince the Jew of the Immaculate Conception, 1188
- Peter of Blois: Against
the Perfidy of the Jews , before 1198
- Image: Jewish Usurers, from the Rotulus Judeorum,
1233
An English caricature of Jews as coinclippers and and usurers.
- Thomas of Monmouth: The Life and Miracles
of St. William of Norwich, 1144, excerpts [At this Site]
One of the major accusations against Jews of the charge that they killed Christian
children. This blood-libel was the center of a number of saint's cults. See the Catholic
Encylopedia [1913] article William
of Norwich for much background information. [Note that this article, while rejecting
the Ritual Murder and Blood Libels, does end by suggesting that some of the cases were
based on real incidents.]
- Image and Story of Anderl von
Rinn: A Blood Libel Saint, supposedly 1462, in fact 17th century [At this Site]
An image from Rinn showing the ritual murder of Anderl von Rinn. This file also contains
many links to other "blood libel" information.
- Ephraim ben Jacob: The
Ritual Murder Accusation at Blois, May, 1171 [At this Site]
- The Abbey of St.
Edmunds and the Jews, 1173-1182
- Roger of Hoveden: Persecution
of Jews Following Coronation of Richard I, 1189 [At this Site]
- Ephraim of Bonn: On the
York Massacre of 1189-90 [At this Site]
- Innocent III: Letter on
the Jews - toleration, 1199 [At this Site]
- Innocent III: Constitution
for the Jews - toleration, 1199 [At this Site]
- The Fourth Lateran Council: Canon 68 - on Jews
[At this Site]
- Pope Innocent III: The
Keeping of Slaves by the Jews, 1204
- Gregory X (r.1271-1276): Letter on the Jews
[At this Site]
- Martin V: From
Declaration on Protection for the Jews, 1419 [At this Site]
- Anti-Semitic Legends,
Translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman, [At Pitt]
- Image: Simon of Trent being "martyred", 1475
- Image of a Jew
Poisoning a Well [At Shakespeare and Antisemitism/Geocities]
- Protestant
- Martin Luther: Before 1517: Letters
to Spalatin [At this Site]
These letters are interesting in showing Luther's atitude towards Rome and towards
theology. They also reveal that Luther's hatred of Jews, best seen in his 1543 letter, was
not some affectation of old age, but was present very early on.
- "On The Jews and Their Lies", a treatise by Martin Luther (translated by Martin H. Bertram, Luther's Works, Vol. 47: The Christian In Society IV, ed. by Franklin Sherman (c) 1971
Fortress Press, pages 121-306) has been removed because of copyright objections. We will attempt
to provide a new translation of the German text at some point, but meanwhile welcome a translation
any scholar wishes to supply.
Early Modern Jewish Life
- General
- Jewish Life in the Ottoman Empire
Jewish Life in Holland
- Jewish Life in England
- Image: Rodrigo Lopez 1594
Lopez was a Portugese Marrano (a "hidden Jew"), who was Queen Elizabeth's
physician. He was executed for working to poison her.
-
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593): The Jew of Malta1589
[At Project Gutenberg]
Not merely an anti-Semitic play, since it attacks Christian hypocrisy, but the Jewish
villain would be seen by an audience without any actual Jews to counter the image.
-
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The
Merchant of Venice, first performed 1597?, [At Project Gutenberg]
Surely the most famous of all early modern plays with Jewish characters. The question of
whether the play is Antisemitic remains open for some commentators.
- WEB Shakespeare and
Antisemitism [At Geocities]
- Image: Manasseh Ben Israel
The man who negotiated with Oliver Cromwell for the return of Jews to England in 1655.
- Jewish Life in South America
Jewish
Life Since the Enlightenment
General
- WEB Judaism in the Modern
Age [At Calgary]
Eliezer Segal's course page, with clear explanations of the variety of modern forms of
Judaism.
The Enlightenment and the Jews
The Jewish Enlightenment [The Haskalah]
Alternate Jewish Reactions to Modernity
The History of the Ashkenazi in Eastern Europe
Jewish Life in Western Europe
- Germany
- Austrian Empire
- France
- England
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Oliver
Twist 1838 [At Virginia]
Fagin was Victorian literature's most famous Jewish character.
- Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918): Poems [At Poem Hunter]
An Anglo-Jewish war poet
- Italy
The History of the Sephardic Communities
The New World Diaspora
- General
- 19th Century
- WEB Walnut Street
19th Century Jewish-American history, poetry and fiction, polemics and philosophy. Has an
online library of 19th century Jewish books.
- WEB Jews in the Civil War
Contains an impressive collection of original texts from both Union and Confederate sides.
- Catechism for Jewish Children 1863 [At Walnut Street]
- Yiddish Culture
- American Zionism
- Milton Steinberg: The Creed of An
American Zionist, The Atlantic Magzine, Feb, 1945 [At The Atlantic Magazine, subscription required]
- WEB AIPAC (American Israel Public
Affairs Committee)
Jews and the Political Left
Modern Jewish Religious Thought
The Impact of Secular Jews on Modern Thought
- See the Internet
Modern History Sourcebook for texts by and about Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Albert
Einstein. Marx was the son of convert parents, Freud rejected religion, and Einstein was
not conventionally religious.
-
Albert Einstein: Letter to
Roosevelt, Aug 2, 1939 [At MPHPA], along with Roosevelt's response and the discussion by
the scientific community
-
Albert Einstein: Science
and Religion, 1939 [At Einstein and Religion]
Modern Antisemitism
- 2ND Yirmiyahu Yovel: Sublimity and Ressentiment:
Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews, Jewish Social Studies Volume 3, Number 3 [At
JSS]
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- Religious Anti-Semitism
- Martin Luther: Before 1517: Letters
to Spalatin [At this Site]
These letters are interesting in showing Luther's attitude towards Rome and towards
theology. They also reveal that Luther's hatred of Jews, best seen in his 1543 letter, was
not some affectation of old age, but was present very early on.
- "On The Jews and Their Lies", a treatise by Martin Luther (translated by Martin H. Bertram, Luther's Works, Vol. 47: The Christian In Society IV, ed. by Franklin Sherman (c) 1971
Fortress Press, pages 121-306) has been removed because of copyright objections. We will attempt
to provide a new translation of the German text at some point, but meanwhile welcome a translation
any scholar wishes to supply.
-
Pope Benedict XIV: On
Jews and Christians Living in the Same Space (A Quo Primum), 14 Jun 1751 [At Papal Encyclicals]
-
2ND Chesterton and Antisemitism [At
Second Spring][Modern Account]
Modern effort to defend him.
- 2ND Gregory Benevitch: The Jewish Question in the
Russian Orthodox Church, [At OCF]
Discusses the vocal anti-Semitism in modern Russian Orthodoxy, with some excuses.
- Racist Anti-Semitism
- Emile Zola (1840-1902): J'accuse, L'Aurore, 13 January 1898, in French [at Cnam] or J'accuse [French
text][At BPJJ]
Zola's scathing attack on the Dreyfus case.
- 2ND Aron Rodrigue: Rearticulations of French
Jewish Identities after the Dreyfus Affair, Jewish Social Studies Volume 2,
Number 3
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-
T.S. Eliot, Burbank with a
Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar [At Bartleby]
Eliot, one of the greatest of 20th-century poets was, nevertheless, an anti-Semite. The
casual anti-Semitism of much of the Western elite tends to be overlooked in discussions of
religious and racial anti-Semitism, but was an important contributor to the tragedy of the
Holocaust. [See also Eliot's The Waste Land.]
- Henry Ford: The International Jew,
Abridged from the original. [At Muslimnet]
- Violent Racist Anti-Semitism
-
The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion [PDF File] [At D. Dickerson] [Full Text]
Note that this text, which has directly caused the death of thousands of Jews, is a
complete fabrication. See
here for a discussion of the text.
- Karl Lueger
-
Adolf Hitler: First
Antisemitic Writing, September 16, 1919 [At HNet]
-
Adolf Hitler: On
Antisemitism in Vienna, 1925 [At HNet][From Mein Kampf]
- The 25 Points, 1920 [At
this Site]
An early Nazi program.
- Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf,
full text [At Hitler.org], and in
German,
[At Adolf Hitler.ws]
Please note that this text is emphatically not endorsed by the Jewish History
Sourcebook.
- Adolf Hitler: Speech,
April 12, 1921 [At Hanover]
- The Eternal Jew
Exhibition, 1937 [At History Place]
- Der Giftpilz (The
Toadstool)[At Calvin College/German Propaganda Archive]
A German book published to teach children to hate Jews.
- Cartoons from Der Stürmer 1932-1944, [At Calvin College/German Propaganda Archive]
- Der Eternal Jew: The Film of a
2000-Year Rat Migration, 1940 [At Calvin College/German Propaganda Archive]
Nazi review of the firm Der ewige Jude
- Julius Streicher: The Death
Blow, 1943 [At Calvin College/German Propaganda Archive]
- WEB German Propaganda Archive [At Calvin
College]
- WEB Weimar Republic Page
-
WEB German Text Archive:
Kaiserreich [At H-Net]
- Islamic Antisemitism
- Radio Islam [Website]
Includes an attack on the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris (who just happens to have
Jewish roots)!
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- Zionism Page [At Internet Archive, from Muslim Net]
A virulently anti-Semitic page which presents as historically accurate the text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Henry Ford's The International Jew.
[The same site's page on
Hinduism is no better.]
- 2ND Jonathan Frankel: "Ritual Murder" in
the Modern - The Damascus Affair of 1840, Jewish Social Studies Volume 3,
Number 2 [At JSS]
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- Sites Showing Antisemitism
- Sites Analysing Antisemitism
The Shoah [or Holocaust]
- Links
- WEB Holocaust Links [At Hanover]
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- Texts
- The Nazi
Marking/Identification System [At HistoryPlace]
This page contains a reproduction of an original document illustrating the various types
of triangles/markings assigned to different categories of prisoner.
- The Nuremberg Laws: Introduction,
1935 [At Holocaust/Shoah]
- The Wannsee
Conference Minutes, January 1942 [At HistoryPlace] and here [At Hanover]
- Heinrich Himmler: Speech
to SS Group Leaders at Posen, October 4 1943 [At HistoryPlace] and here [At Hanover]
- Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account
of Holocaust Mass Shooting,, 1942, excerpts [At this Site]
- Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony, 1946 [At this
Site]
-
Elie Wiesel: Never Shall I Forget [At HMD]
-
WEB Poetry in the Concentration Camp [At Telisphere]
- WEB Holocaust Picture Exhibition [At PHDN]
The site is also available in French.
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- 2ND Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt: Auschwitz:
1270 to the Present, Chapter 1, [At Washington Post]
- Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
- The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
- Revisionism
Zionism
- Mark Twain: Innocents
Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress (1869) [At Virginia]
- Charles Warren (1884): The Survey of
Western Palestine [At TempleMount]
- Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): On the Jewish State, 1896,
excerpts [At this Site]
- Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): Diary of Visit
to Palestine 1898, in Hebrew, [At cet.ac.il]
- H. Sacher: A Jewish
Palestine, The Atlantic Magazine, July 1917 [At The Atlantic Magazine]
- Milton Steinberg: The Creed of An
American Zionist, The Atlantic Magazine, Feb, 1945 [At The Atlantic Magazine, subscription required]
The State of Israel
- General
- Text Links
- Texts: Pre-1947
- The Balfour Declaration,
1917 [At this Site]
- League of Nations: The
Palestine Mandate, 1922
- A.J. Balfour (1848-1930): Defense
of the Palestine Mandate, 1922 [At this Site]
- Sir Henry McMahon: Letter
to Ali ibn Husain, 1915 [At this Site]
British promises to Arab leaders during World War I.
-
United Nations Resolution 181,
1947 [At Yale]
- The Partition of Palestine:
UN General Assembly Resolution 181, November 29, 1947 [At this Site]
- 2ND Itamar Even-Zohar: &quo-e Emergence of a Native
Hebrew Culture in Palestine, 1882-1948" Poetics Today 11:1 (1990),
175-191. [At TAU]
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-
Israeli Declaration of
Independence, 1948 [At Yale]
-
2ND Anita Shapira: Historiography and Memory:
Latrun, 1948, Jewish Social Studies Volume 3, Number 1 [At Internet Archive]
- Texts: Since the Establishment of the State
-
United Nations Security Council
Resolutions Relating to the Middle East [At Yale]
- 1947 UN Partition Vote
In RealVideo [At Israel at Fifty/Aipac]
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- David Ben Gurion, Reading
- aloud the Declaration of Independence for the State of Israel. In RealVideo [At Israel
at Fifty/Aipac]
From Abba Eban's TV account of Isr-s history.
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-
Israel Basic Laws 1960-1994
[At ICL]
- President Eisenhower: The Eisenhower
Doctrine on the Middle East, A Message to Congress, January 5, 1957 [At this
Site]
- TASS: Statement on
the Eisenhower Doctrine, January 14 1957 [At this Site]
- David Ben-Gurion, The
Kingdom of the Spirit, The Atlantic Magazine November, 1961 [At
Atlantic Magazine, subscription required]
-
Hatikvah: Israeli National
Anthem and midi file [At
Jewish Virtual Library]
- Yehoshua Zamir: Survival is Not
Enough [At Eserver]
An Israeli reflects on the Lebanon war.
-
2ND Jonathan Mahler: Uprooting the Past: Israel's New
Historians Take a Hard Look at Their Nation's Past, August 1997 [Modern Account][At
Lingua Franca]
- Country Studies
Prepared for Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. These are full descriptions of the countries
concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There are also useful
bibliographies. [At LOC]
- Israeli Culture
- Texts: Palestinian Documents
Post-World War II Jewish Thought
- General
-
Religious: Orthodox/Hasidic
-
R. Schneur Zalman of Lyady: Tanya [At Chabad]
li>Rebbe Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson (d.c.1915): Resurrection [At Chabad]
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- Bati Le-Gani [At
Chabad] - Messianic Judaism.
- Religious: Conservative
Religious: Reform
Religious: Reconstructionist/Humanist
Religious: Eclectic
Liberal
Secular Jews
-
Leonard Cohen: Poems [At Leonard Cohen Files]
The Problem of Christian Missionaries
- WEB Jews For Judaism
-
WEB Jews for Jesus
Or "Christians" as they are commonly known. The group belong to the Evangelical
wing of American Protestantism.
Jews and Buddhism
Gender and Judaism
- 2ND Ross Shepard Kraemer: Summary of Her Share of the
Blessings: Summary of Women's Religions Among the Pagans, Jews, and Christians in
the Greco-Roman World [At Sunshine for Women]
-
2ND Ronald Simkins: Gender Construction
in J [At Internet Archive, from Creighton][Modern Text]
- 2ND Ronald Simkins: Various Articles on Gender and
Israel [At Creighton][Modern Text]
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2ND Biblical
Texts Concerning Kinship and Marriage [At Internet Archive, from Creighton]
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2ND Jody Elizabeth Myers: The Myth of Matriarchy in
Recent Writings on Jewish Women's Spirituality, Jewish Social Studies Volume
4, Number 1
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For homosexuality see WEB People With a History: Ancient and Medieval
Jews
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2ND Jacob Rothman: Judaism, Homosexuality, and
Political Activism: Analyzing the Need for Diversity in Approaching Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
Politics [At H-Net]
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WEB World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Jewish
Organizations
Further
Resources on Jewish History
- NET GUIDES
- JEWISH STUDIES/HISTORY INSTITUTIONS
- JEWISH HISTORY WEBSITES
- OTHER SITES
- MUSIC
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WEB Israel Gimel
The Israeli-Jewish-Yiddish-Hebrew-Folk-Cultural Music Midi Free Library. Also has a good
guide to other Jewish Music sites on the web.
- WEB Service/Song Archive [Daniel Macks]
Many words available, in transcription, Hebrew and English translation.
- WEB Israel
Midis
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