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Jews and the military : a history /

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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Penslar, Derek Jonathan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Jews in the Tsar's army: conscription as national tragedy?
  • Fighting for rights: conscription and Jewish emancipation
  • The military as a Jewish occupation
  • When may we kill our brethren? Jews at war
  • The Jewish soldier of World War I: from participant to victim
  • The world wars as Jewish wars
  • 1948 as a Jewish world war.