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Derek Penslar

Derek Jonathan Penslar, is an American-Canadian comparative historian with interests in the relationship between modern Israel and diaspora Jewish societies, global nationalist movements, European colonialism, and post-colonial states.

Books
Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870-1918 (1991, Hebrew version 2001) • In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (co-edited with Michael Brenner, 1998) • ''Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe'' (2001) • Orientalism and the Jews (co-edited with Ivan Kalmar, 2004) • Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World (co-edited with Michael Marrus and Janice Gross Stein, 2005) • Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006) • Israël face à son passé, with Shlomo Sand, Avi Shlaïm, Les éditions arkhê, 2010 • The Origins of Israel 1882-1948: A Documentary History (co-edited with Eran Kaplan, 2011) • Jews and the Military: A History (2013) • Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020) • Zionism: An Emotional State (2023), National Jewish Book Award Finalist • Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism (co-edited with Stefan Vogt and Arieh Saposnik, 2023) ==References==
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