Monday, November 25, 2024, 5:30 pm \u2013 7:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Derek Penslar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 1948 Palestine War: From the Local to the Global<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In his talk, Derek Penslar will compare the emotions and perceptions that the public on three different continents \u2014 Asia, Europe, and South America \u2014 brought to the Palestine question and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. He will discuss how 1948 marked the intensification of the world\u2018s longstanding interest in the region, for reasons that went beyond events in Palestine in and of themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended readings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arie M. Dubnov, \u201cCivil war, total war or a war of partition? Reassessing the 1948 War in Palestine from a global perspective,\u201d in The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition<\/em>, edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Derek Penslar, \u201cSolidarity as an Emotion: American Jews and Israel in 1948,\u201d Modern American History<\/em> 5 (2022), pp. 27-51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Derek Penslar, \u201cRebels without a Patron State: How Israel Financed the 1948 War,\u201d in Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History<\/em>, edited by Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, pp. 171-191.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Derek Penslar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 <\/em>(2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional<\/em> State <\/em>(2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine, 1947-1949: A Global History. <\/em>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\u2019s College, Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is part of a year-long lecture series, “Israel, Palestine and Us.”<\/strong><\/a>. The lectures are open to the CEU community and will be live streamed for the wider public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Please note that due to strict security requirements, only those will be allowed to attend in person who are members of the CEU community<\/strong> (faculty, students, staff) and have registered beforehand as in-person attendees. We ask the wider public to register and attend online.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n All Lectures will take Place at 17:30 CET in D001, CEU Vienna campus<\/strong> (Quellenstrasse 51-55) and are co-organized with the University Wide Course Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To attend in person or online, please sign up through this link: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5n98uk9k<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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