Zionism and the International Community: Between Gratitude and Betrayal
Prof. Dr. Derek Penslar (Harvard University)
07.12.2022 um 19:15 Uhr
Öffentlicher Vortrag
Brodt Foundation Gastprofessur
This lecture employs the history of emotion to illuminate the Zionist movement's historic position in the international community. It focuses on the discourse of gratitude and betrayal expressed by leaders of pre-1948 Zionism and post-1948 Israel. Although they are opposed to each other, feelings of gratitude and betrayal both assume dependence - in this case on Britain (for the period before 1948) and the United States (from the 1940s to the present).These feelings illuminate the contradiction within the Zionist project between strivings for sovereignty and the need for allies and protectors.
Professor Dr. Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. He previously taught at Indiana University, the University of Toronto, and Oxford University, where he was the inaugural holder of the Stanley Lewis Chair in Modern Israel Studies. Penslar’s books include Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe, Jews and the Military: A History, and Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader. His book Zionism: An Emotional State will be published next year. He is currently working on a global history of the 1948 Palestine War. Penslar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
Veranstaltungsort: Hauptgebäude der LMU, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Raum M014
Anmeldung: juedische.geschichte@lrz.uni-muenchen.de