Lecture: The 1948 Palestine War: From the Local to the Global
Monday, November 25, 2024, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Speaker
The 1948 Palestine War: From the Local to the Global
In his talk, Derek Penslar will compare the emotions and perceptions that the public on three different continents — Asia, Europe, and South America — brought to the Palestine question and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. He will discuss how 1948 marked the intensification of the world‘s longstanding interest in the region, for reasons that went beyond events in Palestine in and of themselves.
Recommended readings:
Arie M. Dubnov, “Civil war, total war or a war of partition? Reassessing the 1948 War in Palestine from a global perspective,” in The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition, edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023).
Derek Penslar, “Solidarity as an Emotion: American Jews and Israel in 1948,” Modern American History 5 (2022), pp. 27-51.
Derek Penslar, “Rebels without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War,” in Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History, edited by Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, pp. 171-191.
Derek Penslar
Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has published a dozen books, most recently Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine, 1947-1949: A Global History. He is a past president of the American Society for Jewish Research, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
This is part of a year-long lecture series, “Israel, Palestine and Us.”. The lectures are open to the CEU community and will be live streamed for the wider public.
Please note that due to strict security requirements, only those will be allowed to attend in person who are members of the CEU community (faculty, students, staff) and have registered beforehand as in-person attendees. We ask the wider public to register and attend online.
All Lectures will take Place at 17:30 CET in D001, CEU Vienna campus (Quellenstrasse 51-55) and are co-organized with the University Wide Course Initiative.
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