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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “derek penslar”
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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $22.39 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

    $79.99 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

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  • Jews and Power

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

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  • In Search of Israel

    The History of an Idea

    by Michael Brenner ...
    A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • On Antisemitism

    Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice

    by Jewish Voice for Peace Leadership and Culture Lab ...
    When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be addressed is how the deployment of false charges of antisemitism or redefining antisemitism can suppress the global progressive fight for justice. There is no one definitive voice on ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Zionism

    The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State

    by Shlomo Avineri ...
    An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970sFor eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political movement: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished ... Read more

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