Jews and the Military : A History.
Title:
Jews and the Military : A History.
Author:
Penslar, Derek J.
ISBN:
9781400848577
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (375 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Jewish Soldier between Memory and Reality -- War in Premodern Judaism -- Premodern Jews in War -- Jews in the Tsar's Army: Conscription as National Tragedy? -- Chapter Two: Fighting for Rights: Conscription and Jewish Emancipation -- New Thinking about Jews as Soldiers in the Eighteenth Century -- Absolute Conscription: Jews and the Draft in the Habsburg Empire -- Willing Bodies: Jewish Soldiers in Western Europe -- The Jew as Rebel -- Integration and Accommodation of Jewish Soldiers -- Celebrating the Jewish Fighter -- Jewish Fighters at the Fin de Siècle: Proletarian Rebels and Shock Troops of Empire -- Chapter Three: The Military as a Jewish Occupation -- Jewish Military Officers as Social Barometers -- The Armed Juif d'État -- Lives Reconstructed: French-Jewish Officers at Home and Abroad -- Chapter Four: When May We Kill Our Brethren? Jews at War -- Civil Wars within Civil Wars -- Jews and War Finance: Between Patriotism and Internationalism -- World War I: The End or Pinnacle of Jewish Transnationalism? -- Jewish Veterans as a Transnational Community -- Chapter Five The Jewish Soldier of World War I: From Participant to Victim -- Chapter Six: The World Wars as Jewish Wars -- The Jewish Legion and Palestine: The First Global Jewish War? -- Mobilized Jewish Internationalism: The Spanish Civil War -- The Second World War: Fighting Amalek -- Chapter Seven: 1948 as a Jewish World War -- The Global Battle for a Jewish State -- 1948: The View from America -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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 army, in fact they have frequently been willing, even eager, to do military service, and only a minuscule minority have been pacifists. Penslar demonstrates that Israel's military ethos did not emerge from a vacuum and that long before the state's establishment, Jews had a vested interest in military affairs. Spanning Europe, North America, and the Middle East, Penslar discusses the myths and realities of Jewish draft dodging, how Jews reacted to facing their coreligionists in battle, the careers of Jewish officers and their reception in the Jewish community, the effects of World War I on Jewish veterans, and Jewish participation in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Penslar culminates with a study of Israel's War of Independence as a Jewish world war, which drew on the military expertise and financial support of a mobilized, global Jewish community. He considers how military service was a central issue in debates about Jewish emancipation and a primary indicator of the position of Jews in any given society. Deconstructing old stereotypes, Jews and the Military radically transforms our understanding of Jews' historic relationship to war and military power.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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