Derek Penslar

"When May We Kill our Brethren? Jews at War in Europe, 1848-1918"

Monday, Nov. 5, 2007
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

Co-sponsored by the Melton Center for Jewish Studies.

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Derek Penslar is Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at University of Toronto. His publications focus on Jewish political, economic, and cultural life in modern Europe, particularly Germany, and on the history of the Zionist movement and state of Israel.

Penslar’s books include 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 (1998, co-edited with Michael Brenner); 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 (2005); and Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006).

His current projects include a book on modern Jewish attitudes toward war and the military, and a documentary history of Zionism. Penslar is co-editor of Jewish Social Studies and of The Journal of Israeli History.

Derek Penslar
Director of the Jewish Studies Program
University of Toronto