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27 - Area Studies
University of Oxford
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Chapter title
Jews, War and the Military in Modern Times (Hebrew)
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Zalman Shazar Centre
Book title
History and Memory: Essays in Honour of Anita Shapira
ISBN of book
978-965-227-293-5
Year of publication
2012
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Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
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Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Essay: responds to Anita Shapira's classic book from 1992, Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881-1948. The book is a study of the Zionist movement’s understanding of armed force and relationship with Zionist goals. However its depiction of the Zionist militias as products of a sea-change by which what Shapira calls “the age-old Jewish repugnance for the spilling of innocent blood,” was replaced within a generation by a new embrace of militarism. In fact Jews had a long heritage of military service, though the Zionist enterprise did shift its focus and purpose by investing it with nationalistic élan.
