| Derek J. Penslar is the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History and the director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Toronto. His publications focus on Jewish political, economic, and cultural life in modern Europe, particularly Germany, and on the history of the Zionist movement and state of Israel. His books include Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870-1918 (Indiana University Press, 1991); In Search of Jewish Community: Jewish Identities in Germany and Austria, 1918-1933 (co-edited with Michael Brenner, Oxford University Press, 1998); Shylock's Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe (University of California Press, 2001); Israeli Historical Revisionism: From Left to Right (co-edited with Anita Shapira, Frank Cass Publishers, 2002); Orientalism and the Jews (co-edited with Ivan Kalmar, University Press of New England, 2005), and Contemporary Antisemitism: Canada and the World (co-edited with Michael Marrus and Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto Press, 2005). |