1. The anti-Zionist Bund led the Jewish Resistance in Poland whilst the Zionist Movement abandoned the Jews
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Zionism and Israel's racist rulers have created a series of myths about how the only Jewish Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland was from the Zionists. The role of the anti-Zionist Bund has been erased. In fact the Zionist movement in Palestine and the West abandoned the resistance including the Zionist component of that resistance.
2. Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
3. Beyond Judgment
   Resource Type: Article
   
4. The Bible Unearthed
   Article in Wikipedia on the book The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
   Resource Type: Article
   A 2001 book about the archaeology of Palestine and its relationship to the origins of the Hebrew Bible.
5. The Bund (General Jewish Labour Bund)
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A secular Jewish socialist party in Central and Eastern Europe operating predominantly between the 1890s and the 1930s.
6. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
   
7. The Case Against Israel
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
8. College Street - Little Italy
   Toronto's Renaissance Strip
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   
9. The Course of Modern Jewish History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1958
   An acount of the Jews from the French revolution to the present day.
10. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Jewish studies, Maxime Rodinson says in this book, has been a field in which ideological delirium has long had virtually free rein. In this collection of essays, he tries to redress the balance, bringing his expertise to bear on Jewish problems past and present.
11. Diary of Bergen-Belsen
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
12. Edelman, Marek
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. (1919-2009).
13. Eichmann in Jerusalem
    A report on the banality of evil
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
14. Encyclopaedia Judaica
    Resource Type: Book
    
15. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
    
16. Exhuming history: censored Jewish text brought to light by Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Words that were once lost to history have been brought into the light by book conservationists at Library and Archives Canada. The 16th-century collection of sermons were by a rabbi and philosopher who sought to keep the faith alive during a dark era of persecution and censorship, when Jews were facing possible expulsion from their homes if they did not convert to Christianity.
17. Norman Finkelstein
    Resource Type: Website
    Web site of Norman Finkelstein.
18. From Oswiecim to Auschwitz
    Poland Revisited
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Follow Rabbi Moshe Weiss' journey to post-Auschwitz Poland on his pilgrimage, looking for remaining Jews but finding only antisemites. It is a chronicle of the death of the 1,000-year-old civilization of Polish Jews.
19. Genes of Most Ashkenazi Jews Trace Back To Indigenous Europe, Not Middle East
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A genetic study of Ashkenazi Jews shows a "whiter" heritage drawn more from prehistoric Europe than from the Levant, home to the modern state of Israel.
20. The Ghetto Fights
    The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    On May 10th, 1943, the first period of our bloody history, the history of the Warsaw Jews, came to an end. The site where the buildings of the ghetto had once stood became a ragged heap of rubble reaching three storeys high. Those who were killed in action had done their duty to the end, to the last drop of blood that soaked into the pavements of the Warsaw ghetto. We, who did not perish, leave it up to you to keep the memory of them alive--forever.
21. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
    
22. Hitler
    Resource Type: Book
    
23. The Holocaust
    The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    An comprehensive history of Hitler's war on the Jews of Europe.
24. The Holocaust Chronicle
    A History in Words and Pictures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
25. The Holocaust Industry
    Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    The thrust of Professor Finkelstein's book is that powerful interests (Israel and Jewish organizations in America) have hijacked what has become known as the Holocaust. And while Israel has exploited the Holocaust as a weapon to deflect criticism, regardless how justified, American Jewish organizations have used the plight of survivors to extort staggering sums of money from the rest of the world. This was done not for the benefit of survivors, but for the financial advantage of these organizations.
    
26. How I Stopped Being a Jew
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Sand, an Israeli historian, does not examine Judaism as a religion, but focuses on the question of Jewish ethnicity. Through historical and political analysis, Sand examines the implications of embracing the identity tag "secular Jew" in the 21st century. The crux of the issue for Sand is whether there is such an entity as secular Judaism.
27. The Invention of the Jewish People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    In this new book, Shlomo Sand shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the nineteenth century, rather than in biblical times - when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation.
28. The Invention of the Land of Israel
    From Holy Land to Homeland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists.
29. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
30. The Jewish-Arab Conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1938
    The conflict between the Arab masses and Zionist aspirations can only be solved to the extent that Jewish masses in Palestine renounce Zionist exclusivism.
    
31. Jewish Combat Organization
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A World War II resistance movement which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
32. Jewish History, Jewish Religion
    The Weight of Three Thousand Years
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
33. The Jewish Question
    A Marxist Interpretation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Abram Leon offers a materialist approach to the study of Jewish history.
34. Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The resistance of the Jewish people against Nazi Germany leading up to and through World War II, including against the Holocaust.
35. The Jews in the Twentieth Century
    An Illustrated History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    
36. Jews, Marxism and the Worker's Movement
    Resource Type: Website
    A subject index of texts from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Leon and Luxemburg; texts from the Jewish Socialist & Labor Movement and the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jews.
37. Judisches Museum Berlin
    Resource Type: Book
    
38. The Last Jews in Berlin
    Powerful true story of the men and women who lived and survived in the dark heart of the Nazi Holocaust
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
39. The Life of Death: An Exchange
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
    The really great form of courage and honesty that could be witnessed under the conditions of the Holocaust was when a Pole opposed the opinion or the silence of other Poles, when a Jew opposed other Jews, and when Germans opposed other Germans or Nazism in general. This is the type of courage which we should learn about and emulate.
40. The Lion and the Gazelle
    On Jewish History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
    
41. The Mammoth and the Mouse
    Microhistory and Morphology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Essays exploring the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times.
42. Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
43. Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
    
44. The Marxists and the Jewish Question
    The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
    
45. Mina's Story
    A Doctor's Memoir of the Holocaust
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    In this compelling personal memoir of courage and endurance, Dr. Mina Deutsch reveals her memories of living in the shadow of the Holocaust. Mina's Story is a memorial to all those who died under Nazi persecution, a record of the many atrocities suffered, and, finally, an example of heroism, perseverance, and the indestructible will to live.
46. New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    
47. On Jews and Judaism in Crisis
    Selected Essays
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    
48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
    Lurching to War
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
49. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
50. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
51. The Politics of the Exodus Myth
    Pillar of Superstition
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Cook provides conclusions that would suggest that the Bible as the word of God is rather a fabrication created for the masses for political, religious and cultural reasons.
52. The Popes Against the Jews
    The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    
53. A Price Below Rubies, Jewish Woman As Rebels and Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    A tour of radical thought and movements in Europe from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, refracted though the lives of a series of remarkable, courageous women.
54. Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
55. Rescue as Resistance
    How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
56. Resistance during World War II
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
57. Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
58. Scientists reveal Jewish history's forgotten Turkish roots
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Israeli-born geneticist believes the Turkish villages of Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz were part of the original homeland for Ashkenazic Jews.
59. A Surplus of Memory
    Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    The story of the Jewish resistances uprising against the German Army's attack on the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943-44. As much as any other individual, the organizing force and embodiment of the spirit of defiance of the Jewish Army was Yitzhak Zuckerman, code name "Antek."
60. Surprise: Ashkenazi Jews Are Genetically European
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe.
61. A Threat from Within
    A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Rabkin brings to light continuing Jewish opposition to Zionism, a religious tradition which presents a fundamental challenge to the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.
62. A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
63. Victims No Longer?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    The author begins with the position that suffering is not moral and criticizes Israeli settlers and Zionists for disenfranchising Palestinians. She debunks the notion that they are a nation of victims. She calls into question the assumption that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic.
64. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
65. Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareth’s survival
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
66. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
    
67. Yiddish Language and Song: A Collision with Zionism and the Birth of Israel
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2008
    Interview with Yiddish culture archivist, Frank Krasnowsky.
68. The YiVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
    Resource Type: Website
    
69. Zionism, Antisemitism, and the People of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Intended as a popular summary of the historical and theoretical basis of the current conflict.
    

Experts on Jewish History in the Sources Directory

1. Canadian Encyclopedia
2. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum