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LECTURE
Derek Penslar
University of Toronto

Dreyfus Was Not Alone:
The Army as Jewish Career in Modern Europe

Thursday May 7, 2009
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM  
0142 Holzapfel Hall (Jewish Studies Seminar Room)
Lunch served/RSVP required

Derek J. Penslar is the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. He is an author of several books, most recently Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006). Penslar's current projects include a documentary history of Zionism and a book, under contract to Princeton University Press, titled Uniform Identities: Jews and the Military in Modern History.

Penslar is co-editor of two scholarly journals: Jewish Social Studies and The Journal of Israeli History. He has been a visiting professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, Harvard, and Columbia.