Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. He was Victor J. Selmanowitz Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College in New York City, and also taught at Bard College, Rutgers University, and Stern College, and in the graduate History Departments of New York University and Yeshiva University. His numerous publications include The Federal Writers' Project(1977); The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust(1983); The Emergence of Zionist Thought(1986); The Holocaust and Israel Reborn: From Catastrophe to Sovereignty(1994); and Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945 (2002). The Jews Were Expendable received the B'nai B'rith A.D.L. Merit for Educational Distinction and, together with The Emergence of Zionist Thought, garnered the second Samuel Belkin Memorial Literary Award from Yeshiva University.
"What Penkower calls "the crucial nexus that exists between the
rise of the State of Israel and the Holocaust, the most significant
events in the contemporary Jewish experience" has been at the heart
of his scholarship for more than four decades. In
critically-acclaimed books and seminal scholarly essays, the
professor emeritus of Jewish history at the Machon Lander Graduate
Center of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, has demonstrated an
unparalleled grasp of the diplomatic, political, and social
circumstances that shaped Jewish fate in the years 1933-39. His
remarkable research and analytical skills are on full display in
his new, two-volume Palestine in Turmoil."
*Middle East Quarterly (Winter 2016)*
"While the impact of the Holocaust upon the creation of Israel
during the later period 1945–1948 has been the subject of much
scholarly and popular attention, Palestine in Turmoil takes us back
more than a decade to present, in meticulous detail, the looming
destruction in Europe alongside Arab and British threats to
terminate the Jewish national home “experiment” in Palestine. . .
.[M]akes an important contribution to the study of a crucial period
in Jewish, Zionist, and Israeli history.”
*Neil Caplan (Vanier College and Concordia University), Journal of
Israeli History, vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2016)*
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