Derek Penslar presents his book Zionism: An Emotional State (Rutgers, 2023), a new history of Zionism that examines the emotions that have shaped Zionist sensibilities and practices over the course of the movement’s history.

Thursday November 16

Derek J. Penslar (Harvard): Zionism as hated object and hating subject

12:30pm, on Zoom. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsd-yqqjwoGtbTNowWuJ2Ab095hsWEQeG9

 

Derek J. Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe (2001), Jews and the Military: A History (2013), and Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020). Penslar is currently writing a book about worldwide reactions to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

 

Co-sponsored with the History PhD Program.

Rutgers University Press is pleased to offer 30% off Zionism: An Emotional State with code RUSA30

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