Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel

Bibliography

Articles

• Bickerton, Ian J. “President Truman's Recognition of Israel.” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 58 (1968): 173–239.
• ———. “President Truman's Recognition of Israel: Two Views.” American Jewish Archives 33, no. 1 (1981): 141–152.
• Evensen, Bruce J. “Truman, Palestine and the Cold War.” Middle Eastern Studies 28, no. 1 (1992): 120–156.
• Cohen, Michael J. “Truman and the State Department: The Palestine Trusteeship Proposal, March, 1948.” Jewish Social Studies 43, no. 2 (1981): 165–178.
• ———. “Truman, the Holocaust and the Establishment of the State of Israel.” Jerusalem Quarterly 23 (1982): 79–94.
• ———. “Truman and Palestine, 1945–1948: Revisionism, Politics and Diplomacy.” Modern Judaism 2, no. 1 (1982): 1–22.
• Parzen, Herbert. “President Truman and the Palestine Quandary: His Initial Experience, April–December, 1945.” Jewish Social Studies 35 (1973): 42–72.

Books

• Benson, Michael T. Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.
• Klieman, Aaron S. Recognition of Israel: An End and a New Beginning. New York: Garland, 1991.
• Laqueur, Walter. A History of Zionism. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
• McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
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• Safran, Nadav. The United States and Israel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963.
• Sykes, Christopher. Crossroads to Israel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
• Urofsky, Melvin I. American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1975.
• ———. We Are One! American Jewry and Israel. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1978.

Web Sites

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• “Report of Earl G. Harrison.” United States Holocaust Memorial Musem. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/dp/resourc1.htm. Accessed on February 22, 2008.
• “The Recognition of the State of Israel: Background.” Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/israel/large/israel.htm. Accessed on January 7, 2008.
• “60 Years On, New Exhibition Examines President Truman's 1948 Decision to Recognize the State of Israel.” Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/news/trumanisrael.htm. Accessed on February 22, 2008.
• “Truman's Letter Regarding the Harrison Report on the Treatment of Displaced Jews.” Jewish Virtual Library Web site. http://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/truman_on_harrison.html. Accessed on January 7, 2008.
• “United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181.” The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/res181.htm. Accessed on February 22, 2008.