Meg Klingelhofer Annotated Resource List January 31, 2014 Resource Dr.

Winer Source Guest speaker Annotation Dr. Winer was a history professor I had at Villanova. She specializes in medieval history, with a focus on Jewish history. She is therefore a great resource for context, meaning that she could talk about the history of treatment of the European Jewish population that set up an environment in which the Zionist movement could grow. Novel This is a novel that takes place in the late 1940s and deals with the issue of British blockade of Palestinian territory due to a British policy that limited Jewish immigration, which was upheld even after discovery of the Holocaust and the resulting displacement of Holocaust survivors. Per this policy, Jewish people who tried to immigrate were placed in a detention camp in Cyprus, so the plot of this novel details a plot to help inhabitants of this camp to move into Palestine. Informational Flapan focuses on the years 1948 book through 1952 in the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine immediately following the declaration of an independent Israel. She organizes her book by examining and refuting several myths that are popularly believed about those years. Limitations She is a college professor, so she is only available at certain times and on certain days.

Exodus, by Leon Uris

The novel is very long and at a high reading level. It should therefore be studied in excerpts and with scaffolding and vocabulary help, as well as checkins about plot points.

The Birth of Israel

The Long Way Home

Movie

This is a documentary that works through experiences of Holocaust survivors as they returned to find that their homes were no longer theirs, so they entered refugee camps while trying to immigrate to Palestine but needing to negotiate British immigration policies. This would make a good companion to

This should be used in sections; the whole book is not necessary to read. It should also only be used for the end of the unit, because most of the unit focuses on the time period 1917-1948. I need to be able to find a copy of this documentary.

A Young Diary Palestinians Diary

Balfour Declaration

Letter

The Moslem World Watches Palestine

New York Times article

The Haifa Turning Point

Academic journal article

Text of Report on

Report, but printed in

Exodus. This is a diary written by a young man of Arab descent living in Palestine. It mainly details his daily life, as well as issues with his family and personal relationships. There is one entry in particular that deals with the strong feelings he has about the rightful owners of Palestinian land and the lengths he is willing to go to keep Palestine in the hands of the Arab population. This is a short letter that gives British support for a Jewish national home. This was the first document that caused tension between the Jewish and Palestinian populations. This article discusses centuries-old issues between the West and the East, as well as between Muslims and Christians. It focuses on the fundamental differences between the Palestinians and the British in ways to handle the situation between Jews and Muslims in Israel as a war rages between the two sides. It also mentions the idea of Pan-Arabism, which sustains the Arab side of the fighting against the Israeli Jews. This article gives information about British involvement in the conflict occurring in Palestine between the Jewish and Arab populations in the year preceding British relinquishing of authority and the creation of the independent state of Israel. It is important for me to utilize while teaching because it gives a great deal of background information about the (British) Mandatory government in Palestine, especially their failure, in the last year of the Mandate, to end tension between the local populations as violence increased. This is a long description of the report made by the U.N. inquiry committee

There is only one particular entry that I would use because that is the one that is most pertinent to the subject.

I cant think of any at this point.

This article takes a great deal of close reading and can be difficult to follow at times. It also uses stereotyping language, which needs to be discussed before handing it out to students. Use in teaching, not to give the students.

This report is really long and

Palestine by U.N. Inquiry Committee

New York Times

that studied many different aspects of culture and geography in the territory of Palestine. It also delves into two different options for partition of the territory into a Jewish section and an Arab section, which was an attempt to stop that conflict but actually never came into existence.

difficult to read, so I would either use it to give myself information for teaching, or give the students small pieces of it.