Research Guides: Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Memoirs

Memoirs in Olin Library

My people shall live : Autobiography of a revolutionary by Khaled, Leila, 1944-
Call Number: CT1919 P38 K494 1975
Orde Wingate: A Biography by Sykes, Christopher, 1907-1986.
Call Number: DA585 W6 S9 1959a
Children of Bethany : the story of a Palestinian family by Aburish, Saïd K., 1935-
Call Number: DS110 B398 A38 1989
The Drone Eats With Me : A Gaza Diary by Abū Sayf, ʻĀṭif
Call Number: DS110.G3 A288 2015
My Home, My Prison by Tawil, Raymonda Hawa
Call Number: DS113.7 T3813 1980
Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948 by Sherman, A. J. (Ari Joshua)
Call Number: DS113.8 B7 S52 1997
A Child in Palestine : cartoons of Naji al-Ali by al-Ali, Naji
Call Number: DS119.7 .C473 2009
The disinherited; journal of a Palestinian exile by Turki, Fawaz, 1940-
Call Number: DS119.7 .T83 1974
Exile's return : the making of a Palestinian American by Turki, Fawaz, 1940-
Call Number: DS119.7 .T833 1994
This side of peace : a personal account by Ahswari, Hanan
Call Number: DS119.7 A68938 1995
Cross roads to Israel by Sykes, Christopher, 1907-1986.
Call Number: DS125 S86 1965a
Memoirs: David Ben-Gurion by Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973
Call Number: DS125.3 B37 A37
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann by Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952
Call Number: DS125.3 W45 A3
The letters and papers of Chaim Weizmann by Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952
Call Number: DS125.3 W45 A43
2 volume title
Mapping my return : a Palestinian memoir by Abu Sitta, Salman
Call Number: DS125.3.A387 A3 2016
The Revolt by Begin, Menachem
Call Number: DS126 B375 1977
Palestine is my country; the story of Musa Alami by Furlonge, Geoffrey Warren, Sir, 1903-
Call Number: DS126 F83 1969
New perspectives on Israeli history : the early years of the state by Shammas, Anton
Call Number: DS126.5 N48 1991
My father's house by Allon, Yigal, 1918-1980
Call Number: DS126.6 A49 A3213
My Father, His Daughter by Dayan, Yaël, 1939-
Call Number: DS126.6 D3 D38 1985
My life by Meir, Golda, 1898-1978
Call Number: DS126.6 M42 A37 1975
In defense of Israel : a memoir of a political life by Arens, Moshe
Call Number: DS126.6.A735 A3 2018
My struggle for peace : the diary of Moseh Sharett 1953-1956 by Sharett, Moshe
Call Number: DS126.6.S4 A3 2019
This title has 3 volumes
Complete diaries by Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
Call Number: DS149 H525
Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement, 1925-1948 by Shavit, Jacob
Call Number: DS150 R5 S49 1988
Theodore Herzl : a biography by Bein, Alex, 1903-1988.
Call Number: DS151 H4 B4
Berl : the biography of a socialist Zionist, Berl Katznelson, 1887-1944 by Shapira, Anita
Call Number: DS151 K327 S52513 1984
Arthur Ruppin: memoirs, diaries, letters by Ruppin, Arthur, 1876-1943
Call Number: DS151 R75 A29 1972
A Bedouin boyhood by Diqs, Isaak, 1938-
Call Number: DS219 B4 D58 1969
Reconstructing gender in the Middle East : tradition, identity, and power by Persico, Rachel
Call Number: HQ1726.5 .R43 1994
The plough woman : records of the pioneer women of Palestine : a critical edition by Katznelson-Shazar, Rachel, 1888-1975
Call Number: HQ1728.5 K3713 2002
The library owns several copies of this work.
Return : a Palestinian memoir by Karmi, Ghada
Call Number: HQ1728.5.Z75 K37 2015
Next year in Jerusalem : everyday life in a divided land by Golan-Agnon, Daphna.
Call Number: JC599.I68 G6413 2005
Panther in the basement by Oz, Amos
Call Number: PJ5054 O9 Z46613 1997
The seven good years : a memoir by Keret, Etgar
Call Number: PJ5054.K375 Z4613 2015
We were the future : a memoir of the kibbutz by Neeman, Yael
Call Number: PJ5055.35.E35 H3913 2016

Memoirs from MOBIUS or ILL

To be an Arab in Israel by Asmar, Fouzi, 1937-
Available via MOBIUS
Tidings from Zion: Helen Bentwich’s Letters from Jerusalem 1919-1931. by Bentwich, Helen C.
Available via Interlibrary Loan
Mandate memories, 1918-1948 by Bentwich, Norman, 1883-1971.
Available via MOBIUS
Coming home by Ben-Zvi, Raḥel Yanait, 1886-1979
Available via Interlibrary Loan
Before Golda: Manya Shochat: A biography by Ben-Zvi, Raḥel Yanait, 1886-1979
Available via Interlibrary Loan
Living with Jews by Eliachar, Elie
Available via Interlibrary Loan
In search of Fatima : a Palestinian story by Karmi, Ghada
Available via Interlibrary Loan
Pasha of Jerusalem : memoirs of a district commissioner under the British mandate by Keith-Roach, Edward, 1885-1954.
Available via MOBIUS
Armenians of Jerusalem : memories of life in Palestine by Melkon Rose, John H.
Available via MOBIUS
Jerusalem's other voice : Ragheb Nashashibi and moderation in Palestinian politics, 1920-1948 by Nashashibi, Nsser Eddine
Available via Interlibrary Loan
Jerusalem and I : a personal record by Sakakini, Hala
Available via Interlibrary Loan
Strangers in the house : coming of age in occupied Palestine by Shehadeh, Raja, 1951-
Available via MOBIUS
Orientations by Storrs, Ronald, Sir, 1881-1955
Available via MOBIUS
A mountainous journey : an autobiography by Tuqan, Fadwa
Available via Interlibrary Loan
Our Jeruslaem by Vester, Bertha
Available via MOBIUS
The meaning of the disaster by Zurayq, Constantine
Available via Interlibrary Loan

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