Jews and the Military : : A History / / Derek J. Penslar.
Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Derek Penslar shows that although Jews have often been described as people who shun the arm...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 17 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Jewish Soldier between Memory and Reality
- Chapter Two. Fighting for Rights: Conscription and Jewish Emancipation
- Chapter Three. The Military as a Jewish Occupation
- Chapter Four. When May We Kill Our Brethren? Jews at War
- Chapter Five. The Jewish Soldier of World War I: From Participant to Victim
- Chapter Six. The World Wars as Jewish Wars
- Chapter Seven. 1948 as a Jewish World War
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index