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How Palestine Became an Emotional Maelstrom: A Global History of the 1948 War
Mon 15 Jun
|University of Cambridge
A JHSE Cambridge Jewish History Hub Event
Time & Location
15 Jun 2026, 17:00
University of Cambridge, The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK
About the event
Of the many crises that shook the world in the years following the Second World War,
the struggle between Jews and Arabs for Palestine had a distinctly intense and wideranging effect on public opinion. This talk analyzes the emotional pull of the Palestine
war in the realms of both high politics and popular culture in the Americas, Europe,
South Asia, and the Middle East.
Speaker: Derek Penslar (Harvard University)
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