Torah Jews/Books

The texts.

The essential Torah texts opposing Zionism — starting with the Satmar Rebbe’s own writings, and extending through the generation that preceded him.

Vayoel Moshe

R’ Yoel Teitelbaum · 1959–1961 · Hebrew

The Satmar Rebbe’s magnum opus. Three treatises — the Three Oaths, settling the Land, and the Holy Tongue — the canonical halachic case against Zionism.

Al HaGeulah V’Al HaTemurah

R’ Yoel Teitelbaum · 1967 · Hebrew

The Satmar Rebbe’s response to claims that the Six-Day War was a sign of divine redemption.

Divrei Yoel

R’ Yoel Teitelbaum · Hebrew

Responsa and novellae on Talmud and Torah — the Rebbe’s broader body of scholarly work.

Truth and Peace

R’ Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld · pre-1948

The Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem’s pre-state publication, affirming Orthodox Jewish opposition to the subjugation of the Arab population of Palestine.

Mishkenos Haro’im

Collected · Hebrew

Rabbinic responsa and teachings, including Reb Chaim Brisker’s famous statement on Zionism as the “strongest plague.”

Ikvesa D’Meshicha

R’ Elchonon Wasserman · pre-1941 · Hebrew

A pre-Holocaust analysis of the spiritual state of the Jewish people and the danger of political nationalism.