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Book SynopsisWhose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine examines the long history of Welsh interest in Palestine, Israel and Jews, and it offers a groundbreaking contribution to international Jewish studies, to the study of British colonial involvement in Palestine, and to Welsh and Jewish literary and cultural history.
Trade Review"By carefully interrogating the actual written record, Jasmine Donahaye's Whose People? Wales, Israel, Palestine, manages to disrupt more than one historical commonplace about Welsh attitudes regarding Wales and Jews, Zionism and the Holy Land. Donahaye's pathbreaking work demonstrates that the representation of this iconic relationship has a varied and contingent history, a history constantly elided or reconfigured as the need for new representations of Wales and Welshness arose. Whose People combines careful scholarship with invigorating analysis." Professor Daniel Melia, Program in Celtic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Table of ContentsIntroduction: A beginning and an end 1 Tracing the Wales-Israel tradition 2 The mission to convert the Jews 3 Welsh semitic discourse 4 Twentieth-century political comparisons 5 The Jewish response
