Underground & Resistance Studies

Israel’s military-security dimension and its foreign policy-diplomatic counterpart are explored. The periods covered range from the 1920s until contemporary times.

This book presents telegrams sent to London by High Commissioner General Sir Alan Cunningham about the activities of the Jewish and Arab military organizations in Palestine from early 1947 to mid-May 1948.

This is the first detailed study of the religious units that formed an integral part of the Hagana. It describes the needs that prompted the religious Zionist leaders to establish these units, and the difficulties encountered in their formation. In additi

A collection of fully annotated documents. Includes general introduction and foreword for each document.

The Rabbi Yaakov Reines Prize for 1994, Yad Harav Maimon The book, which includes a documentary section, discusses the daring underground activities of Bnei Akiba in Hungary during the Holocaust, such as finding hiding-places, providing false papers, c

A critical edition of the memoirs of the Chief of the Ottoman Intelligence Service in the Levant during World War I. The book discusses the Turkish version of the break-up of the clandestine organization Nili and also refers to other Jewish espionage netw

This study discusses British and Jewish defence plans for Palestine Jewry, against the threatened invasion by the Axis Powers. Includes a collection of sources from British and Jewish archives.

The book deals with the Irgun Brit Zion, which was founded in Kovno after its capture by the Russians and continued to function in the Kovno Ghetto and even in the concentration camps. Its main activities were in the sphere of education and ideology whils

The edited minutes of the only convention ever held by the Lehi movement (Lohamei Herut Yisrael) provide the most authoritative source of the opinions of its 120 members at the birth of the State of Israel. The inaccuracy of the stereotypes assigned to Le

The Irgun Zeva'i Leumi, Lehi and Hagana resis-tance organizations claimed from their very beginning that their resistance to the British authorities was sanctioned by Jewish tradition. This study examines the plausibility of their claim to represent tradi

Study of British documents on how the British authorities dealt with the outbreaks of violence in Eretz Israel during and after World War II.

A collection of annotated documents with an introductory essay illustrating the differences of opinion within and between the various Jewish camps.