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Jews and the Army is the first comprehensive and comparative take a look at Jews' participation in the armed service and their behaviour toward conflict from the 1600s before creation of the talk about of Israel in 1948. Derek Penslar implies that although Jews have often been referred to as people who shun the army, in fact they have frequently been willing, even eager, to do armed service service, and only a minuscule minority have been pacifists. Penslar demonstrates that Israel's armed service ethos didn't emerge from a vacuum and that long before the state's establishment, Jews experienced a vested affinity for armed service affairs. Spanning European countries, North America, and the Middle East, Penslar talks about the common myths and realities of Jewish draft dodging, how Jews reacted to facing their coreligionists in fight, the careers of Jewish officers and their reception in the Jewish community, the effects of World War I on Jewish veterans, and Jewish contribution in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Penslar culminates with a study of Israel's War of Independence as a Jewish world conflict, which drew on the armed service skills and financial support of any mobilized, global Jewish community. He considers how armed service service was a central issue in debates about Jewish emancipation and female indicator of the position of Jews in any given contemporary society. Deconstructing old stereotypes, Jews and the Army radically transforms our knowledge of Jews' historic romantic relationship to conflict and military electric power.
