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Author Penslar, Derek Jonathan, author.

Title Jews and the military : a history / Derek J. Penslar.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
©2013

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 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  355.0089 PENSLAR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  355.0089 PENSLAR    Check Shelf
Description xi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents The Jewish soldier between memory and reality -- 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-335) and index.
Subject Jewish soldiers -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Jewish soldiers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Jews -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Europe -- Identity.
ISBN 9780691138879 hardcover
0691138877 hardcover
Standard No. 40022775301
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