A free-access reading list. Free = open to read online. Public domain = no restrictions. Open PDF = downloadable. Borrow = read free on Internet Archive (14-day loan, not a download). Video = recorded talk.
Primary Texts & Founding Documents
Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), 1896
Public domain
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Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History, 1940
Free
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Hannah Arendt, Zionism Reconsidered (excerpt)
Free
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Gershom Scholem, Redemption Through Sin
Free
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Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
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Theory: Trauma, Historiography, Frankfurt School
Dominick LaCapra, Writing History, Writing Trauma
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Dominick LaCapra, Writing History, Writing Trauma — chapter 1
Open PDF
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Joan W. Scott, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis, 1986
Open PDF
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Marianne Hirsch, Rethinking Holocaust Memory after October 7, 2024
Free
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Marianne Hirsch, Postmemory — definition & bibliography
Free
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Israeli Historians & Sociologists
Zeev Sternhell, The Founding Myths of Israel
Borrow
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Baruch Kimmerling, Politicide
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Baruch Kimmerling, The Invention and Decline of Israeliness
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Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion
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Jacqueline Rose, Bearing Witness to Atrocities — lecture
Video
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Omer Bartov, I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It, 2025
Free (repository)
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Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Diasporism
Shaul Magid, The Necessity of Exile
Publisher preview
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Shaul Magid & Daniel Boyarin, The No-State Solution — conversation
Free
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George Steiner, Our Homeland, the Text
Free
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, sourced quotations
Free
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Decolonization, Holocaust & Nakba
Yoav Di-Capua, Arab Existentialism
Open PDF
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Hannan Hever et al., The Holocaust and the Nakba — introduction
Free
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Open Repositories — bookmark these
Internet Archive — borrow full books free (14-day loans)
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Project Gutenberg — public-domain full texts
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Marxists Internet Archive — free full texts (Benjamin, Frankfurt School)
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Public Books — open-access critical essays
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Posen Library — Jewish culture & civilization texts
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JSTOR — free tier: 100 article reads every 30 days with a free account
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