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cover of episode Michael Brenner, “In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea” (Princeton UP, 2018)

Michael Brenner, “In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea” (Princeton UP, 2018)

2018/4/30
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In his new book, In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea) (Princeton University Press, 2018), Professor Michael Brenner), a historian of Jews and of Israel who teaches both at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at American University in Washington, DC, offers a history of the Zionist idea, and the debates over its embodiment in 70 years of Israeli statehood.

Yaacov Yadgar) is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017)). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here).

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