{"id":9324,"date":"2018-11-13T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2019-03-29T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:49:58","slug":"axel-stahler-zionism-the-german-empire-and-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/13\/axel-stahler-zionism-the-german-empire-and-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Axel St\u00e4hler on Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/staehler.html\">Dr Axel St\u00e4hler<\/a>, Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature, has recently published a book entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/viewbooktoc\/product\/498872?result=1&amp;rskey=ZObDuu\"><em>Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa<\/em><\/a> (De Gruyter, November 2018).<\/p>\n<p><em>Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa<\/em> explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically, interrogating in a comparative analysis material that draws from a range of cultural sources, the book situates the short-lived but influential Zionist satirical magazine Schlemiel (1903\u201307) in an extensive network of nodal clusters of varying and shifting significance and with differently developed strains of cohesion or juncture that roughly encompasses the three decades from 1890 to 1920.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAxel St\u00e4hler compellingly situates early Zionism\u2019s ambivalence toward seeing itself as a colonial enterprise within the context of Imperial Germany\u2019s African exploits and meticulously grounds the figure of the Jew as \u2018black\u2019 in an extensive network of interlaced discourses through careful exegeses of a wide range of media \u2013 from photographs to cartoons, satires to parliamentary reports.\u201d\u00a0Jay Geller, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Culture, Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa<\/em>\u00a0covers an impressive variety of primarily German cultural sources. It testifies to a deep knowledge of German and Jewish culture of the period of 1880\u20131920 from the fine arts and philosophy to the intertextuality and literacy of popular images.\u201d\u00a0Jakob Egholm Feldt, Roskilde University, Denmark<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/viewbooktoc\/product\/498872?result=1&amp;rskey=ZObDuu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9326 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/files\/2018\/11\/book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Zionism, The German Empire, and Africa book cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Axel St\u00e4hler, Reader in the Department of Comparative Literature, has recently published a book entitled Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa (De Gruyter, November &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/13\/axel-stahler-zionism-the-german-empire-and-africa\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions\/10230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}