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LIFE LECTURE: Israel’s Moment with Jeffrey Herf

Sunday, November 13, 2022 19 Cheshvan 5783

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Israel’s Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War II, the Holocaust, and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on new research in government, and public and private archives, Professor Jeffrey Herf exposes the political realities that underpinned support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine. In an unprecedented international account, he explores the role of the United States, the Arab States, the Palestine Arabs, the Zionists, and key European governments.

His findings reveal a spectrum of support and opposition that stood in sharp contrast to the political coordinates that emerged during the Cold War, shedding new light on how and why the state of Israel was established in 1948 and challenging conventional associations of left and right, imperialism and anti-imperialism, and racism and antiracism.

JEFFREY HERF is Distinguished University Professor, Department of History, University of
Maryland, College Park, where he teaches Modern European History, with a focus on Germany since 1914. He has lectured widely in the United States, Europe, and in Israel. He has published several books, plus essays and reviews in American Interest, Commentary, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Internationale Politik, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Moment Magazine, The New Republic, The Washington Post, the Times of Israel, and many others.

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