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  • Theodor Herzl

    The Charismatic Leader

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a masterful new biography of Theodor Herzl by an eminent historian of ZionismThe life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a stern moralist yet possessed ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Jews and the Military

    A History

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Derek Penslar shows that although Jews have often been described as people who shun the army, in fact they have frequently been willing, even eager, to do military service, and only a minuscule ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Israel in History

    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society, politics and culturehistorical consciousness in the twentieth centurycolonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building.With its open ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Zionism

    An Emotional State

    by Derek J. Penslar ...
    Series series Key Words in Jewish Studies
    Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for many, Zionism is a source of distaste if not disgust, and those who reject it are no less passionate than those who ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Zionism

    An Emotional State

    by Derek J. Penslar ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    Emotion lies at the heart of all national movements, and Zionism is no exception. For those who identify as Zionist, the word connotes liberation and redemption, uniqueness and vulnerability. Yet for many, Zionism is a source of distaste if not disgust, and those who reject it are no less passionate than those who embrace it. The power of such emotions helps explain why a word originally ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • In Search of Jewish Community

    Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918–1933

    by Michael Brenner, Derek J. Penslar ...
    A collection of essays interrogates the nature of Jewish identity in the time between two world wars.The history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation, or as the beginning of the road that led to Auschwitz. By contrast, this volume demonstrates a re ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Orientalism and the Jews

    Edited by Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    At the turn of the twenty-first century, in spite of growing globalization there remains in the world a split between the West and the rest. The manner in which this split has been imagined and represented in Western civilization has been the subject of intense cross-disciplinary scrutiny, much of it under the rubric of “orientalism.” This debate, sparked by the 1978 publication of Edward Said’s ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Unacknowledged Kinships

    Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism

    Edited by Stefan Vogt, Derek Penslar, Arieh Saposnik ...
    Series series The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
    The first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the history of Zionism.There is an “unacknowledged kinship” between studies of Zionism and post-colonial studies, a kinship that deserves to be both discovered and acknowledged. Unacknowledged Kinships strives to facilitate a conversation between the historiography of Zionism and postcolonial ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Israeli Historical Revisionism

    From Left to Right

    Edited by Derek J. Penslar, Anita Shapira ...
    The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen ...
    A groundbreaking — and terrifying — examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied beyond what anyone would have predicted. It is openly spread by intellectuals, politicians and religious ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Making Israel

    Edited by Benny Morris ...
    Benny Morris is the founding father of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have challenged long-established perceptions about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their research rigorously documented crimes and atrocities committed by the Israeli armed forces, including rape, torture, and ethnic cleansing. With Making Israel, Morris brings together the first collection ... Read more

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  • Defending Identity

    Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy

    by Natan Sharansky ...
    Who is better prepared to confront challenges and defend principles in a volatile modern world? Those with strong national, religious, ethnic, or tribal identities who accept democracy, or democrats who renounce identity as a kind of divisive prejudice?Natan Sharansky, building on his personal experience as a dissident, argues that valueless cosmopolitanism, even in democracies, is dangerous. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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