Untangling Jews from Zionism: On the Power and Limits of Jewish Support for Palestinians in Oren Kroll-Zeldin’s Unsettled and Geoffrey Levin’s Our Palestine Question - Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978. Geoffrey Levin (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023). Pp. 320. 38.00 cloth, 24.00 paper. ISNB: 9780300283341 - Unsettled: American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine. Oren Kroll-Zeldin (New York: New York University Press, 2024). Pp. 280. 35.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781479821457

2025/02/01 by Emily Schneider · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Middle East Politics and Society

paper · doi:10.1017/s0020743825100779

openalex publication_date 2025/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

Untangling Jews from Zionism: On the Power and Limits of Jewish Support for Palestinians in Oren Kroll-Zeldin’s Unsettled and Geoffrey Levin’s Our Palestine Question - Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978. Geoffrey Levin (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023). Pp. 320. 35.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781479821457 - Volume 57 Issue 1

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• An important new review essay, titled "Untangling Jews from Zionism," in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, exploring Geoffrey Levin's "Our Palestine Question" and Oren Kroll-Zeldin's " [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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