Recent Publications
Recent Publications
- Jews and the Military: A History (2013) (Princeton University Press)
- "Shlomo Sand's 'The Invention of the Jewish People' and the End of the New History," Israel Studies 17:2 (2012), 156-68
- The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History (with Eran Kaplan. University of Wisconsin Press, 2011)
- "The German-Jewish Soldier: From Participant to Victim." German History 29, 3 (2011), 423-44
Journal editing
Along with Professor Anita Shapira, Derek Penslar co-edits The Journal of Israeli History, which is housed at the Center for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University:
http://humanities.tau.ac.il/zionism_eng/index.php/journals
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fjih20/current#.UfguZBZffJI
Derek Penslar is a member of the editorial board of Israel Studies, also published by Indiana University Press.
https://iupress.org/journals/israelstudies/
And of the Israel Studies Review, which is edited by Professor Yoram Peri of the University of Maryland for the Israel Studies Review.
http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/isr/
Derek Penslar serves on the advisory board of the Israel Institute, a recently founded educational and philanthropic organization in Washington, DC, which funds graduate and post-graduate students and promotes the teaching of Israel Studies at universities throughout the world
http://www.israelinstitute.org