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Gil S. Rubin

Gil Rubin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University.

  • Jewish protest demonstrations against the Palestine White Paper, Jerusalem, May 18, 1939.
    Jewish protest demonstrations against the Palestine White Paper, Jerusalem, May 18, 1939.
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    Beyond the Zionist Nation-State

    A new book asks if the early Eastern European proponents of nationhood saw the future Jewish territorial unit in Palestine as a province within a multinational empire

    byGil S. Rubin
  • Detail, propaganda poster for Hekhalutz's "Organization Month", with the slogan: "Come with one shoulder to the aid of the people," Poland, 1930s
    Detail, propaganda poster for Hekhalutz's "Organization Month", with the slogan: "Come with one shoulder to the aid of the people," Poland, 1930s
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    Was Polish Anti-Semitism Actually Zionism?

    Nazis sought to eliminate the Jews from their future racial empire. Poles wanted to create a state for them in Palestine. Historian Timothy Snyder makes the case that in the 1930s the two aims may have converged. But was Poland an ally of the Jews or a pioneer in the art of anti-Semitic politics?

    byGil S. Rubin
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